The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
