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Idries Shah

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

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

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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

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"A library is chamber of treasures."

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"If we knew all the answers, we won't ask questions."

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"In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history."

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"In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude."

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"By reading, we will know the minds of great soul."

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"All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind."

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"Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself."

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"You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism"."

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"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."
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"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."
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"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."
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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
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"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."
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"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."
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"Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it."
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"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."
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"The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real."
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"Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow."
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