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Knowledge Quotes by Idries Shah
- When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
- Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
- One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding…
- The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
- Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
- The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.…
- Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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