Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. —Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Jalal ad-Din Rumi Persian poet, mystic

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Kimberly Chin
December 12, 2023

This is so true I feel wiser but still learning

Marleta from Sacramento California
March 30, 2022

Drawing such a fine and thin line between cleverness and wisdom ............... what a clever use of wisdom.

Bhutta Arshad from Lahore - Pakistan
August 12, 2013

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