243 Quotes by Idries Shah about Wisdom
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People don't get the gurus they deserve, they get the gurus they manufacture.
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Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.
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Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.
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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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A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.
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...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it
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Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.
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