1,355 Quotes by Idries Shah

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: ‘Which is better, to be young or to be old?’ He said: ‘To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

Antes de que el huerto, el vino o la uva estuviese en el mundo, nuestra alma estaba borracha de vino inmortal.

Ideologies exist only where there is no absolute knowledge. If you know something, you do not have to believe or disbelieve it...

Sufis can teach in any vehicle, whatever its name.

Although human mobility has increased, human assumptions have not kept pace. Human knowledge may have increased but human assumptions have remained fairly constant.

The way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Saying of the prophet tasks whoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Saying of the prophet reflection the faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

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