Idries Shah Quotes
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
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You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
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Training can get on a man’s nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
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Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
