Idries Shah Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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?

  Idries Shah

  Book, Long, People

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.142, Octagon Press Ltd

• Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  Idries Shah

  Book, Philosophical, Mean

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

• Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

  Idries Shah

  Wise, Book, Ass

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.81, Octagon Press Ltd

• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  Idries Shah

  Book, Mean, Ordinary

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

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