Observations Quotes

“Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“La sabiduría es cuando entiendes lo que previamente, y en el mejor de los casos, sabías.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“The beginning for the Traveller on the Path is to start to look for faults in himself which he previously sought in others; and to begin to perceive in others the merits which he formerly imagined to be his own.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Nothing is ever lost while even a single person remains to remind us of it.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Wisdom gives honour to nobility, and nobility to everything else.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Are you ignorant enough to expect horsemanship from blacksmiths?”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“If you want to nourish your stupidity, try a little avarice.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Alguien dice que no le he enseñado nada que pueda recordar. Aún no puede comprender que eso es precisamente a lo que estoy apuntando…”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am aiming at…”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Tu deber es hacer lo mejor que puedas. Sin embargo, no por haber nacido tienes derecho a prevalecer.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“El Sufismo es el hacer en esta vida lo que cualquier tonto estará haciendo dentro de diez mil años.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Las palabras, dicen, son el alimento de la mente. Pero, al igual que otros alimentos, pueden hacer poco por sí mismas.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Nada está perdido mientras haya una sola persona para recordárnoslo.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“La imaginación del sabio es más verdadera que el conocimiento de los tontos.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“The imagination of the wise is truer than the knowledge of fools.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“La educación tiene sus problemas. Estos incluyen hacer más sabio al sabio y más tonto al tonto.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Education has its problems. This includes making the wise wiser and the foolish more foolish.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta con un poquito de avaricia.”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“¿Eres lo suficientemente ignorante para esperar equitación de un herrero?”
― Idries Shah, Observations

“Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta un poco de avaricia.”
― Idries Shah, Observations