
The liar has a bad memory.
– Idries Shah
Related Quotes:
- Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. – Idries Shah
- DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. – Idries Shah
- 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
- Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life. – Rian Dawson
- Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. – Criss Jami
- Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective – Colleen Hoover
- If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell. – James Purdy
- Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett
- Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn’t make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad. – Kavita Kan
- When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. – Idries Shah
- If I knew what two and two were -“ I would say Four! – Idries Shah
- Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi’s reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates. – Idries Shah
- Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything. – Idries Shah
- I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
- To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. – Idries Shah
- Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt. – Idries Shah
- Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding. – Idries Shah
- The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. – Idries Shah
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? – Idries Shah
- 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
- Opportunity’s precious, and time is a sword. – Idries Shah
- Why did I do such-and-such a thing?’ is all very well. But what about ‘How otherwise could I have done it? – Idries Shah
- He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
- There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah
- Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. – Idries Shah
- You yourself are your own barrier -“ rise from within it. – Idries Shah
- Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening. – Idries Shah
- Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it. – Idries Shah
- Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf. – Idries Shah
- Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time. – Idries Shah
- When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. – Idries Shah
- Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life – Idries Shah
- The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work. – Idries Shah
- It will p???, whatever it is. – Idries Shah
