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title: "45 Learning Quotes By Idries Shah"
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> [If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/if-your-desire-for-good-is-based-on-greed-it-is-not-good-but-greed/)

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> [“Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/most-people-whatever-their-opinions-and-protestations-do-not-want-to/)

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> [“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/virtually-all-organisations-known-to-you-work-largely-by-means-of/)

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> [“Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/opportunity-s-precious-and-time-is-a-sword/)

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> [“Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/progress-comes-through-capacity-to-learn-and-is-irresistible/)

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> [“Words have to die if humans are to live.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/words-have-to-die-if-humans-are-to-live/)

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> [“If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/if-you-cannot-laugh-frequently-and-genuinely-you-have-no-soul/)

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> [“Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/learning-how-to-learn-involves-examining-assumptions-mulla-nasrudin/)

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> [“Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/never-follow-any-impulse-to-teach-however-strong-it-might-be-the/)

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> [“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/he-who-knows-himself-knows-his-lord-means-among-other-things-that/)

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> [“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/they-say-seek-wisdom-while-you-have-the-strength-or-you-may-lose-the/)

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> [Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/study-the-assumptions-behind-your-actions-then-study-the-assumptions/)

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> [“Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/our-objective-is-to-achieve-by-the-understanding-of-the-origin-the/)

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> [“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-institution-of-teachership-is-there-for-this-reason-that-the/)

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> [“HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/he-is-a-master-who-may-teach-without-it-being-totally-labelled/)

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> [“You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/you-can-learn-more-in-half-an-hour-s-direct-contact-with-a-source-of/)

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> [“It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/it-is-no-accident-that-sufis-find-that-they-can-connect-most/)

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> [“From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/from-a-personal-experience-and-the-examination-of-literature-i-feel/)

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> [“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/a-man-is-deficient-in-understanding-until-he-perceives-that-there-is/)

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> [“Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/show-a-man-too-many-camels-bones-or-show-them-to-him-too-often-and-he-2/)

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> [“It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/it-is-a-sufi-contention-that-truth-is-not-discovered-or-maintained-by/)

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> [“Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/why-did-i-do-such-and-such-a-thing-is-all-very-well-but-what-about/)

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> [“Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/q-what-is-a-fundamental-mistake-of-man-s-a-to-think-that-he-is-alive/)

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> [“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-major-barrier-to-understanding-is-wishful-thinking-and-following/)

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> [“...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/action-is-in-fact-knowledge-in-operation-right-action-stems-from/)

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> [“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-sufis-runs-the-saying-understand-with-their-hearts-what-the-most/)

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> [“Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/talent-is-the-presence-of-ability-and-absence-of-understanding-about/)

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> [“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/man-and-woman-has-an-infinite-capacity-for-self-development-equally/)

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> [“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-person-that-you-feel-yourself-to-be-according-to-the-sufis-is-a/)

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> [“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/to-copy-a-virtue-in-another-is-more-copying-than-it-is-virtue-try-to/)

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> [“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/if-you-seek-a-teacher-try-to-become-a-real-student-if-you-want-to-be/)

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> [“It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/it-has-truly-been-said-that-humility-is-not-so-much-a-virtue-as-a/)

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> [“The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-man-who-knows-must-discharge-a-function-the-one-who-does-not/)

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> [“People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i +…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/people-are-always-trying-to-understand-there-is-only-one-way-to-do/)

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> [“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/real-generosity-is-anonymous-to-the-extent-that-a-man-should-be/)

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> [“All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/all-approaches-to-a-study-or-an-individual-may-start-with-a-desire/)

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> [“Many a “learned” man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him’ (Hadrat Ahmed ibn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/many-a-learned-man-is-destroyed-by-ignorance-and-by-the-learning/)

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> [The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-sufi-is-one-who-does-not-care-when-something-is-taken-from-him/)

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> [“You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/you-have-come-a-long-way-and-you-do-not-know-it-you-have-a-long-way/)

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> [“The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-real-generosity-is-when-a-man-does-something-generous-when-nobody/)

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## More by Idries Shah

> [“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/to-be-a-sufi-is-to-detach-from-fixed-ideas-and-from-preconceptions/)

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> [“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/teach-honesty-by-all-means-you-do-know-what-it-is-don-t-you/)

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> [Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/prescribing-hard-work-for-the-soft-or-easy-work-for-the-hardy-is/)

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> [“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/sufism-is-transmitted-by-means-of-the-human-exemplar-the-teacher/)

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> [“No existe práctica en aislamiento.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/no-existe-pr-ctica-en-aislamiento/)

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> [A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/a-king-who-feared-wasps-once-decreed-that-they-were-abolished-as-it/)

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> [“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/do-not-tell-your-secrets-to-everyone-in-this-headquarters-earth-we/)

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> [“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/sufis-are-those-who-have-expunged-from-their-minds-the-human/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

> [“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/yes-the-world-is-an-illusion-but-truth-is-always-being-shown-there/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

> [It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/it-is-the-message-not-the-man-which-is-important-to-the-sufis/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

> [The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/the-human-being-whether-he-realises-it-or-not-is-trusting-someone-or/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

> [“Who is the wrong person to criticise? You”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/who-is-the-wrong-person-to-criticise-you/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

> [“You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel. (Gulistan)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/you-may-be-able-to-get-the-bone-down-your-throat-but-if-it-reaches/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

> [“People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< +…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/people-are-always-trying-to-understand-there-is-only-one-way-to-do/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

> [We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/idries-shah/we-view-sufism-not-as-an-ideology-that-molds-people-to-the-right-way/)

[Idries Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/idries-shah/)

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