243 Quotes by Idries Shah about Wisdom
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The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.
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Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.
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Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.
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It is not ‘Have I got a chance?’ It is more often: ‘Have I seen my chance?
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A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.
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Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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