Knowledge Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image ““Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses it And who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.”” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowledge Sufis Sufism Wisdom
“Only a fool chooses to live in ignorance when knowledge is so easily obtained.” — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“One who wins always is not the wise one, rather wise is the one who knows where to lose.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact. But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Winners will take what they know and share it with others. The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Give no poor fool the pretext to think ye are claiming knowledge of what no mortal knows.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.” — Jennifer Hudock Copy Share Image
“The wise learn from their mistakes, the foolish make mistakes for others to learn.” — Emmanuel Auko Copy Share Image
“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.” — Queen Of Spades Copy Share Image
“A wise man knows he knows nothing. A fool thinks they know all.” — Michael Chatfield 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
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image