"Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble."

Morality, Vice, Importance, Humility, Life

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Godliness, Spirit, Virtue, Leadership

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Deed, Knowledge, Value

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Knowledge, Value, Choice

"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Righteousness, Slavery, Sin, God

"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Morality, Judgment, Devil, Choice

"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Leadership, Justice, Rights, Governance

"No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?"

Richelle Mead, American Author

Morality, Goodness, Faith, Judgment

"The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Sin, Heart, Will, Choice

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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

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"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

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"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

Truth

"The real challenge is to develop the capacity to see the world as it really is."

Philosophy

"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."

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"To seek the truth, you must first recognize that you do not know."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"

"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."

"No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?"

"The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!"

Explore more quotes by Idries Shah

"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."

"Everything depends on the right perspective."

"To comprehend the world around you, first, comprehend yourself."

"To understand, one must first question everything."

"The real challenge is to develop the capacity to see the world as it really is."

"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."

"To seek the truth, you must first recognize that you do not know."