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September 4

Ibn Battuta quote?

There is a quotation ascribed to Ibn Battuta that goes something like - one should never travel faster than a camel lest one's soul gets left behind ... however there is hardly any reliable mention of this in any translations of Battuta as far as I can see (Google "Ibn Battuta faster than camel soul site:archive.org"). Is this a misattribution? Shyamal (talk) 11:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquote has an entry for Ibn Battuta. Nowhere in that article is "camel" mentioned. -- 136.54.106.120 (talk) 14:58, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There purportedly is a relevant "old Arabic saying": The soul invariably travels at the speed of a camel.^[1] 136.54.106.120 (talk) 15:56, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Still not reliably sourced... Shyamal (talk) 15:09, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect it's misattributed. To quote both Albert Einstein and Mark Twain: "I never said that".^{[citation needed]} -- 136.54.106.120 (talk) 21:08, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]