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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
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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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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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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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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