1,355 Quotes by Idries Shah

Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: “¿Por qué hiciste eso?” Junaid dijo: “Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.

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.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.