Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.