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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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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 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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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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