Quote by

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
– Idries Shah

Related Quotes:

  1. if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity – Idries Shah
  2. 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
  3. I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real -“ through the Real. – Idries Shah
  4. Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
  5. The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so. – Idries Shah
  6. He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
  7. The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself. – Soroosh Shahrivar
  8. Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves. – John Weece
  9. For others to be generous it requires that a person accept their generosity for the cycle to be completed. – Susan C Young
  10. Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous. – Luther Standing Bear
  11. A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person – Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
  12. A real secret is something which only one person knows. – Idries Shah
  13. If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher. – Idries Shah
  14. The Sufi is one who does what others do -“ when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do -“ when it is indicated. – Idries Shah
  15. The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not. – Idries Shah
  16. There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love. – Idries Shah
  17. When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. – Idries Shah
  18. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft. – Idries Shah
  19. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
  20. Show me a person who really knows what ‘good’ is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word. – Idries Shah
  21. If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you. – Rishabh Surya
  22. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. – Tahir Shah
  23. Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man. – Idries Shah
  24. A woman’s intuition is better than a man’s. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man. – Mark Twain
  25. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  26. No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you’re not alone. – Richie Norton
  27. Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
  28. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
  29. Inner Knowledge — You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. – Idries Shah
  30. 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
  31. Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man’s world. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  32. Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. – Albert Camus
  33. The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth. – Idries Shah
  34. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
  35. When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty -” what difference does it make what your decisions are? – Idries Shah
  36. And what she does not know, what nobody else knows but you, is that I have a special place where I go to be with her; my first, my only love. – Anne Rouen
  37. Generosity does not come from wealth. Wealth comes from the flowers of kindness and love. – Debasish Mridha
  38. Abundance of life does not come from having a great job. Abundance comes from generosity. – Debasish Mridha
  39. Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man’s?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life’s waiting-room. – Idries Shah
  40. 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

More Quotes

, , , , ,