Sufi Knowledge Quotes

#1. The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#2. Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

Ma Huateng

#3. The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

Idries Shah

#4. I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Idries Shah

#5. He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Idries Shah

#6. The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge.

Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib

#7. The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Idries Shah

#8. I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#9. I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

Carlos Beltran

#10. None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons

Audrey Truschke

#11. It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

Idries Shah

#12. If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals).

Wasif Ali Wasif

#13. There are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur.

Erin Morgenstern

#14. There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Idries Shah

#15. That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information ... but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Idries Shah

#16. Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

Idries Shah

#17. Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.

Pearl Zhu

#18. Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Albert Pike

#19. They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Idries Shah

#20. I do what I always need to do. I preach it. I preach it to the person I need to preach to the most. I preach to me.

Ann Voskamp

#21. Daniel's voice brushed along my cheek like dark feathers, like a long night wind coming down from some far mountain. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

Tana French

#22. Remedy
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali

Idries Shah

#23. While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Howard Gardner

#24. Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?"
"Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

Libba Bray

#25. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

#26. If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Tim Vine

#27. The Wizard of Oz." "No, no, no," said Sophie. She quickly

Lara Bergen

#28. Sufism," according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Idries Shah

#29. "Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

Coco Chanel

#30. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Idries Shah

#31. Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

Idries Shah

#32. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Idries Shah

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

Idries Shah

#34. When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we can be effective ambassadors of peace.

James O'Dea

#35. Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

Idries Shah

#36. The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#37. A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.

Idries Shah