“People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.” — Idries Shah Fallacious Copy Share Image
“Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform” — Idries Shah Generosity Copy Share Image
“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.” — Idries Shah Concealment Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the spurious, the unreal, the untrue is so much easier to find that it is in danger of… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a… — Idries Shah Knowledge Copy Share Image
“The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.” — Idries Shah Islam Copy Share Image
“Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel… — Idries Shah Camels Copy Share Image
“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Many a “learned” man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him’ (Hadrat Ahmed ibn… — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“No hay sabiduría donde no hay sentido común: en tales condiciones ella no podrá encontrar ninguna expresión.” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than… — Idries Shah Problem Copy Share Image
“The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.” — Idries Shah Generosity Copy Share Image
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you… — Idries Shah Book Copy Share Image
“You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do… — Idries Shah Death Copy Share Image
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for… — Idries Shah Care Copy Share Image
“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.” — Idries Shah Ego Copy Share Image
“No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.” — Idries Shah Duty Copy Share Image
“Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.” — Idries Shah Evolution Copy Share Image
“Voz en la noche Anoche, una voz me susurró: “¡No existe tal cosa como una voz susurrando en la noche!” — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something? — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.” — Idries Shah Conditioning Copy Share Image
“The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.” — Idries Shah Idries-shah Copy Share Image
“Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am… — Idries Shah Idries-shah Copy Share Image
“Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.” — Idries Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“Si eres "humilde", puede ayudarte en tu vida ordinaria. Si no lo eres, no irás a ningún lado respecto a las cosas… — Idries Shah Amor Copy Share Image
“The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not… — Idries Shah Trust Copy Share Image
“Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.” — Idries Shah Behaviour Copy Share Image
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. — Idries Shah History Copy Share Image
“Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.” — Idries Shah External world Copy Share Image
“People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i +… — Idries Shah Learning Copy Share Image
“The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — Idries Shah Education Copy Share Image
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. — Idries Shah Approach Copy Share Image
“Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to… — Idries Shah Hindu Copy Share Image
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise. — Idries Shah Credulous Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Every moment Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind. — Idries Shah Knowledge Copy Share Image
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'. — Idries Shah Colour Copy Share Image
“All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.” — Idries Shah Essence Copy Share Image
