No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.
Idries ShahExaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.
Idries ShahStichwörter: exaggeration opposites deprecation
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
Idries ShahStichwörter: wisdom generosity
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
Idries ShahStichwörter: criticism beliefs analysis analytical-thinking
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
Idries ShahStichwörter: advice
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
Idries ShahStichwörter: knowledge opinion information
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
Idries ShahStichwörter: timing
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
Idries ShahStichwörter: pessimism change egocentrism
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
Idries ShahStichwörter: behaviour sufi-wisdom
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
Idries ShahStichwörter: hard-work sufi-wisdom easy-work
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