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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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Humans
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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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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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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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