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Idries Shah Quotes

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody’s friend Picture Quote #1
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn’t changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before Picture Quote #1
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials Picture Quote #1
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history Picture Quote #1
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things Picture Quote #1
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown Picture Quote #1
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting Picture Quote #1
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it Picture Quote #1
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant Picture Quote #1
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything Picture Quote #1
Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise Picture Quote #1
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct Picture Quote #1
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A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions Picture Quote #1
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise Picture Quote #1
If you are uninterested in what I say, there’s an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude? Picture Quote #1
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us? Picture Quote #1
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured’ Picture Quote #1
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep Picture Quote #1
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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone Picture Quote #1
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag Picture Quote #1
People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all Picture Quote #1
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody’s friend  (Idries Shah Quotes) An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn’t changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before  (Idries Shah Quotes) Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials  (Idries Shah Quotes) Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history  (Idries Shah Quotes) Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things  (Idries Shah Quotes) Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown  (Idries Shah Quotes) If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting  (Idries Shah Quotes) A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it  (Idries Shah Quotes) History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant  (Idries Shah Quotes) A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything  (Idries Shah Quotes) Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise  (Idries Shah Quotes) Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct  (Idries Shah Quotes) A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions  (Idries Shah Quotes) Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise  (Idries Shah Quotes) If you are uninterested in what I say, there’s an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?  (Idries Shah Quotes) If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?  (Idries Shah Quotes) The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured’  (Idries Shah Quotes) The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep  (Idries Shah Quotes) From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone  (Idries Shah Quotes) When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag  (Idries Shah Quotes) People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all  (Idries Shah Quotes)
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