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Best Quotes by Idries Shah (Top 10)
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
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Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
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A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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More Idries Shah Quotes
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge
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You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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