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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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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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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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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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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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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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