When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the harmonious union of truth and spiritual enlightenment, suggesting that when truth emerges, it transcends historical divides.
Ziauddin Yousafzai's quote reflects the idea that the emergence of truth has a unifying effect on humanity, hinting at a connection between different cultural and spiritual beliefs, represented here by the Buddha's smile. The 'voice of truth' symbolizes the clarity and understanding that can heal historical wounds and restore connections between people who may have previously been divided or estranged.
In practice
During a keynote speech on cultural understanding, this quote can be used to highlight the importance of truth in bridging divides.
If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.
Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.
Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
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