Reflections
Idries Shah
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”
“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”
“Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.”
“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”
“To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.”
“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”
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