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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.
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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Simla
Arkon Daraul
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Ass
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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