“Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.” — Idries Shah Education Copy Share Image
“Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.” — Idries Shah Education Copy Share Image
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. — Idries Shah Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.” — Idries Shah Knowledge Copy Share Image
“If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the… — Idries Shah Education Copy Share Image
“When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.” — Idries Shah Attachment Copy Share Image
“Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.” — Idries Shah Advantage Copy Share Image
“You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.… — Idries Shah Saadi Copy Share Image
“Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.” — Idries Shah Context Copy Share Image
“Tu deber es hacer lo mejor que puedas. Sin embargo, no por haber nacido tienes derecho a prevalecer.” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for. — Idries Shah Belief Copy Share Image
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold.… — Idries Shah Sufis Copy Share Image
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world,… — Idries Shah Death Copy Share Image
“Muéstrale a un hombre demasiados huesos de camello, o muéstraselos a menudo, y no podrá reconocer un camello vivo cuando se le… — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information… — Idries Shah Books Copy Share Image
“Counsels of Bahaudin You want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to… — Idries Shah Attitude Copy Share Image
“The would-be students wish to transcend books. But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he… — Idries Shah Books Copy Share Image
“Ali, Son of the Father of the Seeker Ali said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think… — Idries Shah Life Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention… — Idries Shah Focus Copy Share Image
“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.” — Idries Shah Conditioning Copy Share Image
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun? — Idries Shah Curse Copy Share Image
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The phenomenal is the channel to the Truth. Al mujazu qantarat al Haqiqa.” — Idries Shah Phenomenal Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what he’s like — reverse what his opponents say.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
