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Idries Shah, Reflections Quotes: Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
         

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


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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.



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



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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?



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



Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?



The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.



To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.



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

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



A real secret is something which only one person knows.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.



Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.





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