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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
Idries Shah
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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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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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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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