Idries Shah - Knowledge Quotes

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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

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

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

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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

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

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