A quotation from Ibn Sina
Quotation
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit.
Ibn Sina
A child prodigy who mastered medicine at sixteen and philosophy by eighteen. He wandered Persia, writing the books that shaped medieval thought.
Ibn Sina was born near Bukhara and showed extraordinary ability from childhood. By sixteen he was treating patients. By eighteen he had read every book available to him. He spent his adult life moving between Persian courts, serving as physician and vizier, writing at night, sometimes on the run. His Canon of Medicine was the standard textbook in Europe for five centuries. His Book of Healing synthesized Aristotelian and Neoplatonic ideas into a system that made the existence of God a matter of logical necessity. His thought dominated Islamic philosophy for generations and provoked Al-Ghazali's famous attack.
More Lines from Ibn Sina
More from Ibn Sina→Understanding This Quotation
What does Ibn Sina mean by this quotation?
A child prodigy who mastered medicine at sixteen and philosophy by eighteen. He wandered Persia, writing the books that shaped medieval thought. Ibn Sina was born near Bukhara and showed extraordinary ability from childhood. By sixteen he was treating patients. By eighteen he had read every book available to him. He spent his adult life moving between Persian cou…