Books And Sufism Quotes

#1. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Idries Shah

#2. Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Idries Shah

#3. "Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

Alan Blinder

#4. Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

Walter Isaacson

#5. The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Idries Shah

#6. Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

Tim Kaine

#7. After a few minutes Jim was forced to admit that he could recognize none of the constellations. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. For all their movements, the Japanese aircraft were its only fixed points, a second zodiac above the broken land.

J.G. Ballard

#8. Soar on to the King, the crown jewel,
And then you'll truly see
That nothing is as beautiful
As His grand Majesty.

Alexis York Lumbard

#9. Maybe I just needed to fuck her out of my system.
That sounded like the best plan ever.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. In my experience - and I admit I didn't anticipate this - most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

Jared Taylor

#11. Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Andre Gide

#12. God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

Jim George