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The knowledge of people of heart lifts them up, while knowledge of the body weighs them down
Drawn from what Rumi said
What Rumi actually said
- Rumi Persian Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207 to 1273)
The knowledge of men of heart bears them up, The knowledge of men of the body weighs them down.
Where this was said
↗Masnavi, Book I (tr. and abridged by E. H. Whinfield)en.wikisource.org
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