1,355 Quotes by Idries Shah

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?

Many a “learned” man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him’ (Hadrat Ahmed ibn Mahsud, the Sufi).

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.