Top 450 Idries Shah Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.”

— Idries Shah

252. “If it is dark enough, one candle is plenty.”

— Idries Shah

253. “Antes el Sufismo era una realidad sin nombre: ahora es un nombre sin una realidad”.”

— Idries Shah

254. “Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.”

— Idries Shah

255. “Me conviertes en un pecador si me impides darte hospitalidad.”

— Idries Shah

256. “Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’.”

— Idries Shah

257. “Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.”

— Idries Shah

258. “Be a tiger – if you are ready for a tiger’s problems.”

— Idries Shah

259. “Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.”

— Idries Shah

260. “I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.”

— Idries Shah

261. “La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad.”

— Idries Shah

262. “Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life.”

— Idries Shah

263. “Patience is a garment which has never worn out.”

— Idries Shah

264. “A man’s capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.”

— Idries Shah

265. “You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.”

— Idries Shah

266. “Los corazones de los nobles son las tumbas de las confidencias.”

— Idries Shah

267. “Those who say ‘I am ready to learn’, or ‘I am not ready to learn’ are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.”

— Idries Shah

268. “Si no puedes sentarte en un trono como un rey, sujeta, como un tendero, la cuerda de la tienda Real.”

— Idries Shah

269. “The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.”

— Idries Shah

270. “Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.”

— Idries Shah

271. “In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”

— Idries Shah

272. “Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.”

— Idries Shah

273. “A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan.”

— Idries Shah

274. “People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn’t got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.”

— Idries Shah

275. “God provides the food, men provide the cooks.”

— Idries Shah

276. “The person who has not seen the face of trust – has seen nothing. The person who has not found contentment – has found nothing.”

— Idries Shah

277. “Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

— Idries Shah

278. “Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.”

— Idries Shah

279. “They say: ‘Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”

— Idries Shah

280. “The best player of a game is the watcher – ask him.”

— Idries Shah

281. “Los grandes hombres son grandes hasta que lo saben. Los santos son santos hasta que lo saben.”

— Idries Shah

282. “There is a saying that, according to what a person’s mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil’s face.”

— Idries Shah

283. “Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.”

— Idries Shah

284. “Sufism is the essence of all religions.”

— Idries Shah

285. “Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.”

— Idries Shah

286. “I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.”

— Idries Shah

287. “The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.”

— Idries Shah

288. “Everything man needs is in the world.”

— Idries Shah

289. “If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.”

— Idries Shah

290. “Make mankind your dwelling place.”

— Idries Shah

291. “But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.”

— Idries Shah

292. “El sufismo se transmite por medio del elemento humano, es decir del maestro.”

— Idries Shah

293. “No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.”

— Idries Shah

294. “Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition.”

— Idries Shah

295. “People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.”

— Idries Shah

296. “Enviar un beso por mensajero.”

— Idries Shah

297. “The problem is that the spurious, the unreal, the untrue is so much easier to find that it is in danger of becoming the norm.”

— Idries Shah

298. “Charity has been made into a great virtue only because of the low level of human decency.”

— Idries Shah

299. “Lo que va dentro de una mina de sal se convierte en sal.”

— Idries Shah

300. “A stolen kiss is not easily returned.”

— Idries Shah