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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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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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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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