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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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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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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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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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