"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

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Friendship, Virtue, Vice, Influence

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Morality, Solution

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Deed, Knowledge, Value

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Morality, Sacrifice, Conflict, Ethics

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Value System, Pulpit, Culture, Faith

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Self, Betrayal, Sin, Regret

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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

Observation

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

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

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

Wisdom

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

Truth

"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

Knowledge

"Everything depends on the right perspective."

Wisdom

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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."

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

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

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

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

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Explore more quotes by Idries Shah

"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"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."

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

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

"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."

"The most difficult things to grasp are the simplest."

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

"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

"Everything depends on the right perspective."