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

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Collector Of Fairy Tales
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Arkon Daraul
Opinion
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Information

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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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.
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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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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