Men Quotes by Idries Shah

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

— Idries Shah

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

— Idries Shah

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

— Idries Shah

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

— Idries Shah

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

— Idries Shah

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

— Idries Shah

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse…

— Idries Shah

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

— Idries Shah

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours.…

— Idries Shah

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be…

— Idries Shah

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man…

— Idries Shah

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher…

— Idries Shah

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour…

— Idries Shah