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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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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.
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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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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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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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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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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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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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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