Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.Rumi
Rumi Quotes on Wisdom
15 quotes by Rumi on the subject of wisdom, collected from across the QuotePlace library. If you came looking for Rumi's thinking on wisdom specifically, rather than everything Rumi ever said, this is the page. About the author: Rumi (1207–1273) — Poet and mystic.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?Rumi
Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.Rumi
How many flee from one calamity into another; how many leap from the snake towards the dragon.Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.Rumi
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.Rumi
The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.Rumi
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.Rumi
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.Rumi
Knock, and He will open the door. Vanish, and He will make you shine like the sun.Rumi