Idries Shah Quotes

Things come suitable to the time.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

I don’t believe in an answering questions that have not become relevant yet.

The formation is not the most important thing.

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.