Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
– Idries Shah
Related Quotes:
- Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand of them. – Anonymous
- Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. – Henry James
- … the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both… – Frederick Buechner
- Science is agnostic when it comes to God – not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly – just agnostic. – Eric Chaisson
- The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. – Thomas Sydenham
- Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied. – Idries Shah
- Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God? – Lysa TerKeurst
- Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
- O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’. – Idries Shah
- The power of the written word goes way beyond the page on which it is written – Sheena Sexton
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
- Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
- The word ‘choice’ is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose. – Idries Shah
- Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man. – Idries Shah
- The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon. – Markus Zusak
- Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them? – Idries Shah
- 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? – Idries Shah
- The Fourth Amendment wasn’t written for people with nothing to hide any more than the First Amendment was written for people with nothing to say. – Dave Krueger
- There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys. – Gabriel Garca Mrquez
- Raising donkeys in the midst of horses will not make them sprinters. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress. – RP Falconer
- Ignore donkeys and other naysayers! – Mary Buchan
- You can’t say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys. – Allan Dare Pearce
- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified. – NK Jemisin
- There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. – Linda Hogan
- When love speaks it is about us or we. When ego speaks it is about I or me. – Kemi Sogunle
- The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The judge speaks in the name of justice,’ he said. ‘The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.’ (Bishop Myriel) – Victor Hugo
- The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks.Moreover, it speaks of everything. – Cornelius Van Til
- True Love never needs the Expression of Words, It Speaks the Language Blessed by God and when it speaks, Only Miracles Happen. – Mohsin Ali Shaukat
- I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all. – Chigozie Obioma
- Show me a person who really knows what ‘good’ is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word. – Idries Shah
- The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. – AE Samaan
- Through the written Word we discover the Living Word-”Jesus Christ. – Billy Graham
- Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word. – Billy Graham
- If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall. – Chuck Black
- I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. – Agatha Christie
- There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information. – Tahir Shah