Idries Shah Quotes

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

There is more than two sides. Facts are often apart from what both sides say about each other.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

There are two words for everything.

I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

There is always room for at least two truths.

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

There's two heads to every coin.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

There is always the other side, always.