Observations
Idries Shah
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.”
“Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.”
“It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.”
“Wisdom gives honour to nobility, and nobility to everything else.”
“The beginning for the Traveller on the Path is to start to look for faults in himself which he previously sought in others; and to begin to perceive in others the merits which he formerly imagined to be his own.”
“Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.”
“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 aiming at…”
“Nothing is ever lost while even a single person remains to remind us of it.”
“If you want to nourish your stupidity, try a little avarice.”
“Are you ignorant enough to expect horsemanship from blacksmiths?”
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