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Idries Shah

"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."

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Donna Grant

"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."

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Donna Grant

"One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not have even five 'revolutions' per minute and an intellectual has one to two thousand 'revolutions' per minute. The higher the 'revolutions, the quicker he will understand this 'Science' [Akram Vignan]."

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Donna Grant

"Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are."

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Donna Grant

"The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman."

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Donna Grant

"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."

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Donna Grant

"The buddhi [intellect] is today's gain, it is today's experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature's gift!"

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Donna Grant

"That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn't allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do 'everywhere adjustment'."

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Donna Grant

"Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect-better because they alone give promise of final success."

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Donna Grant

"The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it."

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Donna Grant

"He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."

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Idries Shah
"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

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

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

Truth

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

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Idries Shah
"Everything depends on the right perspective."

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

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Idries Shah
"Knowledge is a light that brightens the mind, not a burden."

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Idries Shah
"To understand, one must first question everything."

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

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