top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Teaching quotes
"As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers."
"Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning."
"The most important and uniquely glorious element of Buddha's character was that, he did not compel his pupils to be slaves either to his teachings or to himself, but like a conscientious human, demanded from his followers to accept his words not merely out of regard for him but after subjecting them to a thorough examination. And this is where Buddha stands out from the crowd of self-proclaimed prophets."
"The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."
"From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people."
Explore more quotes by Idries Shah
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
"Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, in the most threatening way imaginable: 'O our Lord God, we most humbly pray!'Real humility is not always the same as apparent humility. Remember that fighting against self-conceit is still fighting: and that it will tend to suppress it temporarily. It does not cure anything.Remember, too, that humility itself does not bring an automatic reward: it is a means to an end. It enables a person to operate in a certain manner."
"Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it."
"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
bottom of page