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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.
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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Arkon Daraul
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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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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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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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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 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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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