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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

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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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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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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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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