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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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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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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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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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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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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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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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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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