“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” - Abraham Lincoln
You can’t even educate a MAGASS with a world of facts and evidence. It’s beyond their grasp. They need hatred and ignorance to be able to function with their limited mental resources.
its original is something like that -> "I convinced forty scholars with one piece of evidence. I couldn't convince an ignorant person with forty evidence."
There are so many different enlightened people in this land which you might not even heard of.
From different sects of religion, they have lots of full enlightened people. So sometimes people do not want to mention other sects and the real person who said might get lost.
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Education, education, education.
The idiots may block one in the end, but if you block the idiots things will get worse.
and it does not belong to Rumi.
The story is exactly the same as the one told by the Gothama Buddha 2000 years ago.
If there were no record of this story in Buddhist texts, we would call it Rumi's inspiring spiritual story.
From different sects of religion, they have lots of full enlightened people. So sometimes people do not want to mention other sects and the real person who said might get lost.
Whoever said it is a controversial subject even in Turkey (Rumi or Imam Safi).
People kind of attribute wise words by default to Rumi (Mevlana) here.