Quotes by : Idries Shah

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions;....

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within....

The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis....