Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 135

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
Idries Shah
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Idries Shah
The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.
Idries Shah
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
Idries Shah
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
Idries Shah
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
Idries Shah
If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
Idries Shah
Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.
Idries Shah
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
Idries Shah
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
Idries Shah
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
Idries Shah
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Idries Shah
Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
Idries Shah
Only a self-taught man can teach others
Girish Kohli
Only a self-learnt man can teach others
Girish Kohli
Only a self-learnt man can reach others.
Girish Kohli
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
Idries Shah
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
Idries Shah
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
Idries Shah
It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Idries Shah
Words have to die if humans are to live.
Idries Shah
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
Idries Shah
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
Idries Shah
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
Idries Shah
If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.
Deeksha Mittal
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Idries Shah
The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
Idries Shah
For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt
Ankala V Subbarao
Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
Idries Shah
Education is a process of unlearning and learning.
Debasish Mridha
To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the whole dirty thing. And that requires energy, actual physical energy, and also it demands psychological energy. By the energy is destroyed, is wasted when one is in conflict. So when there is the understanding of the whole process of conflict, there is the ending of conflict, there is abundance of energy. Then you can proceed tearing the house that you have built throughout the centuries and that has no meaning at all. You know, to destroy is to create. We must destroy, not the buildings, not the social or economic system, - this comes about daily – but the psychological, the unconscious and the rationally, individually, deeply and superficially. We must tear through all that to be utterly defenseless, because you must be defenseless to love and have affection. Then you see and understand ambition, authority, and you begin to see when authority is necessary and at what level. Then there is no authority of learning, no authority of knowledge, no authority of capacity; no authority that function assumes and which becomes status. To understand all authority – of the gurus, of the Masters, and others – requires a very sharp mind, a clear brain, not a muddy brain, not a dull brain.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of oneself neither introspectively nor analytically, but actually be aware of oneself as one is and see if it is at all possible to be entirely free of all those issues that seem to clog the mind.To explore, there must be freedom, not at the end, but right at the beginning. Unless one is free one cannot explore, investigate or examine. Two things are essential: freedom and the act of learning. One cannot learn about oneself unless one is free, free so that one can observe, not according to any pattern, formula or convept, but actually observe oneself as one is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions. Merely to acquire information of knowledge is to not to learn. Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion through influence, thought attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward. Most people think that learning is encouraged through comparison, whereas the contrary is the fact. Comparison brings about frustration and merely encourages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
each year India produces thousands upon thousands of eighteen-year olds who have little to no instructed idea of the last sixty years of Indian history. They have no idea if or how those five-year plans worked. They have no idea if or how the Non-Aligned Movement worked. They have no idea about the numerous wars India has fought against Pakistan or China. They have no idea, for instance, of what many people call the greatest threat to India’s internal security: the Naxal movement. What created this Naxal movement? And why is the movement popular where it is? Our youth doesn’t know.
Sidin Vadukut
Why should each generation be brought up on the selective prejudices of the one before it? I believe that this is exactly the point of history. And not just reading or studying history but also approaching it with a sceptical bent of mind. When each generation approaches received wisdom with scepticism, perhaps it will reassess established notions of right and wrong, love and hate. Perhaps it will finally see mistaken priorities for what they really are. Perhaps it will do something that previous generations steadfastly refused to do.
Sidin Vadukut
There are times when one shall forgive oneself. Therein lies the best possibilities of learning & improving.
Deepak Chandra
Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Idries Shah
Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
Idries Shah
There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.
Subroto Bagchi
Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.
Amit Ray
Maybe it doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, but how much you are willing to learn.
Geetanjali Mukherjee
Success is shown to us as a straight line, heading in one direction, up. There are no detours, no turn-arounds, no missteps allowed. ... When you aren’t allowed to fail, either due to the expectations of others or yourself, although it may seem like you are being pragmatic and focusing on how to succeed, you are actually making it that much harder for yourself.
Geetanjali Mukherjee
When you want to learn something, all the life experiences conspire in helping you to learn.
Utpal Vaishnav
While some American education experts may say that all learning should be 'fun,' I personally believe that the word "fun' is the wrong word to use. Learning should be challenging, meaningful, rigorous, engrossing, interesting, and satisfying.
Maya Thiagarajan
There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.
Ronald Tudu
Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
Idries Shah
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
Idries Shah
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Idries Shah
Life should be great rather than long.
B.R. Ambedkar
Always have a passion in your life.
Mithilesh Tiwari
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
Thrity Umrigar
Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.
Ankur Basu Roy
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...
Amit Abraham
A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams",so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!
Manmohan Singh
when you unfriend the people you need, soon you will have to befriend the people you don't need
Ankur singh yadav
Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.
Poonam Parihar
Life is like a Sunset and Sunrise, when sun goes down it will raise back again next day, life is also same way, sometimes we have to face good as well as bad situation which will help us to learn new things which we never excepted that will happen.
Madhu
Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.
Amit Ray
Sometimes life isn't what you expect it to be, and you feel like giving up. But isn't life supposed to be full of challenges that will make us learn from our mistakes. And mistakes make us better people.
Raj Solith