"When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."

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Source : Idries Shah (2016). “The Book of the Book”, p.15, ISF Publishing

Idries Shah

#Differences Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.”
“Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov
“To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.”

Source : Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday
“Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.”
“I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.”
“Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.”
“I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and...was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 190), 2004.
“Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.”

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