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Top 450 Idries Shah Quotes (2025 Update)
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Idries Shah Quote: “If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.”
Idries Shah Quote: “The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.”
Idries Shah Quote: “You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Sufismo es aquello que consigue llevar el Conocimiento Superior al hombre.”
Idries Shah Quote: “MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained.”
Idries Shah Quote: “There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.”
Idries Shah Quote: “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 Quote: “Sufism is the essence of all religions.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.”
Idries Shah Quote: “I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.”
Idries Shah Quote: “The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Everything man needs is in the world.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Make mankind your dwelling place.”
Idries Shah Quote: “But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.”
Idries Shah Quote: “El sufismo se transmite por medio del elemento humano, es decir del maestro.”
Idries Shah Quote: “No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Haz de la humanidad tu morada.”
Idries Shah Quote: “You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.”
Idries Shah Quote: “And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.”
Idries Shah Quote: “People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.”
Idries Shah Quote: “When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.”
Idries Shah Quote: “They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.”
Idries Shah Quote: “La gente habla de “servicio, esfuerzo, amor, conocimiento”. Pero con el conocimiento sabes lo que es amor, y lo que no lo es.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Hay tantos caminos hacia la verdad como almas humanas.”
Idries Shah Quote: “People generally deal with situations by means of assumptions.”
Idries Shah Quote: “A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything.”
Idries Shah Quote: “A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.”
Idries Shah Quote: “One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...”
Idries Shah Quote: “In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.”
Idries Shah Quote: “The definition of the word ‘finished’ is: ‘This word means finished.”
Idries Shah Quote: “When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.”
Idries Shah Quote: “People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.”
Idries Shah Quote: “The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.”
Idries Shah Quote: “What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.”
Idries Shah Quote: “What is known to be tyranny to the superior man may appear to be justice to the ordinary one.”
Idries Shah Quote: “If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ’you will not welcome reproof from another.”
Idries Shah Quote: “To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.”
Idries Shah Quote: “The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development.”
Idries Shah Quote: “La vida: algunas veces, el hombre sobre la montura; algunas veces, la montura sobre el hombre.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?”
Idries Shah Quote: “From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.”
Idries Shah Quote: “Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.”
Idries Shah Quote: “If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.”
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