Avicenna Quotes on Knowledge
Avicenna, known in Arabic and Persian as Ibn Sina, was a Persian polymath of the Islamic Golden Age, regarded as one of the most influential philosophers and physicians of the medieval world. This page collects quotes attributed to Avicenna on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Avicenna:
“Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored.”
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Attributed to Avicenna:
“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
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Attributed to Avicenna:
“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit.”
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Attributed to Avicenna:
“Whoever has, throughout his life, observed the impressions on his soul made by his loves and hatreds, his desires and aversions, will not doubt that the soul is something other than the body.”