“To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.”

“The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.”

“People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.”

“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.”

“The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.No real knowledge is common.”

“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.”

“People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.”