Quotes by Idries Shah

About Idries Shah:

Idries Shah was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.
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Death If he is a good man, death will be a release; If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

Idries Shah

Make mankind your dwelling place.

Idries Shah

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

Idries Shah

A loan is the scissors of friendship. A man's own tongue may cut his throat. The cage has no value without the bird.

Idries Shah

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)

Idries Shah

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

Idries Shah

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

Idries Shah

Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Idries Shah

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Idries Shah

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Idries Shah

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

Idries Shah

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

Idries Shah

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

Idries Shah

La paciencia es amarga, pero produce un dulce fruto.

Idries Shah

One lie will keep out forty truths

Idries Shah

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness...

Idries Shah

Learning without action is like wax without honey. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Idries Shah

Aunque el oro falso haga feliz a un hombre, en la casa de la moneda será identificado.

Idries Shah

Un préstamo es las tijeras de la amistad La lengua de un hombre puede cortar su garganta La jaula no tiene valor sin el pájaro.

Idries Shah

La Oportunidad es preciosa, y el tiempo es una espada.

Idries Shah

Conocimiento sin acción es como cera sin miel.

Idries Shah

Author Bio

  • NameIdries Shah
  • DescriptionWriter and Sufi teacher
  • BornJune 16, 1924
  • DiedNovember 23, 1996
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter