20+ Best Reflections Quotes by Idries Shah

Greed harms you: generosity helps you.Greed is the mother of incapacity.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

To test that which has been tested is ignorance. To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticize.

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

There is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

Trust in God – but tie your camel first.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses it And who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The color of the water seems to be the color of the glass into which it has been poured.