Learning How to Learn Quotes

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Do not try to be humble: learn humility.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.”
― Idries Shah, Aprender a aprender

“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“No practice exists in isolation.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way