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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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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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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 you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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