Idries Shah Quotes

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.

I do know great books help shape who I am and how I look at life.

I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.