20+ Best Reflections Quotes by Idries Shah

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge than you can in years of formal effort.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

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.