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Read through the most famous quotes from Idries Shah
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. ↗
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend. ↗
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. ↗
His early writings centred on magic and witchcraft. He used to say that the great collections of stories from the East were like encyclopedias storehouses of wisdom and knowledge ready to be studied to be appreciated and cheriIdries Shahd. For the time being we can only hope that some good will come and meanwhile continue our own work.
Shah came to be recognised as a spokesman for Sufism in the West and lectured as a visiting professor at a number of Western universities. Born in India the descendant of a family of Afghan nobles Shah grew up mainly in England. In 1965 Shah founded the Institute for Cultural Research a London-based educational charity devoted to the study of human behaviour and culture.
