
Inner Knowledge — You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
– Idries Shah
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- …action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. – Idries Shah
- The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom. – RSD
- I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real -“ through the Real. – Idries Shah
- 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
- Our heads are filled with -˜knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all. – Idries Shah
- People talk about -˜service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not. – Idries Shah
- Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life – Idries Shah
- When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is ‘the Wise’. – Idries Shah
- Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
- Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength. – Amit Ray
- An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) – Idries Shah
- Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement. – Idries Shah
- Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human. – Abhijit Naskar
- It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere. – Idries Shah
- When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge. – Idries Shah
- When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge – Idries Shah
- Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you. – Idries Shah
- He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
- Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. – Idries Shah
- Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge. – Idries Shah
- Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. – Idries Shah
- Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim. – Idries Shah
- I eye the three of them, considering. They’ll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldn’t like that. – Eliza Crewe
- It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person’s history from their face. – Naama Yehuda
- You don’t always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement. – Bryant McGill
- For every mistake is a lesson and for every lesson learned is victory. – Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
- They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you. – Suzette R Hinton
- Liars corrupt knowledge,and fools pervert wisdom,but the wise hallow both.Knowledge holds the truth. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge. – Karen Azinger
- 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
- The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. – Idries Shah
- There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love. – 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
- The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it. – Idries Shah
- A real secret is something which only one person knows. – Idries Shah
- 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
- Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings. – Idries Shah
- When people have a hard task to do – one which stretches them – they become less concerned with trivial matters. – Idries Shah