Avicenna Quotes

[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011433/Avicenna Avicenna] an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Encyclopedia Britannica Online

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

[http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/art/ei-is.htm Ibn Sina] from the Encyclopedia of Islam

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.