--- title: "6 Foolish Quotes By Rumi" description: "6 Foolish quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Foolish sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/rumi-56_achievement_start-a-huge-foolish-project-like-noah-i_322745.jpg" --- > [Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/start-a-huge-foolish-project-like-noah-it-makes-absolutely-no/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/rumi-56_achievement_start-a-huge-foolish-project-like-noah-i_322745.jpg) > [You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-do-not-see-clearly-the-evil-in-yourself-else-you-would-hate/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/rumi-56_bottom_you-do-not-see-clearly-the-evil-in-yours_958919.jpg) > [Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/greed-makes-man-blind-and-foolish-and-makes-him-an-easy-prey-for-death/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70c/rumi-56_blind_greed-makes-man-blind-and-foolish-and-ma_1141767.jpg) > [If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-you-want-what-visible-reality-can-give-you-are-an-employee-if-you/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bd/rumi-56_confusing_if-you-want-what-visible-reality-can-giv_2208199.jpg) > [Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/your-depression-is-connected-to-your-insolence-and-refusal-to-praise-2/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b92/rumi-56_angel_your-depression-is-connected-to-your-ins_2386303.jpg) > [Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/friendship-of-the-wise-is-good-a-wise-enemy-is-better-than-a-foolish/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ab/rumi-56_enemy_friendship-of-the-wise-is-good-a-wise-en_2527574.jpg) ## Other authors on Foolish ## More by Rumi > [The love religion is all that is written here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-love-religion-is-all-that-is-written-here/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-so-it-is-that-both-the-devil-and-the-angelic-spirit-present-us/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plant-life-and-into-the-animal/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-morning-inside-you-waiting-to-burst-open-into-light/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-door-calling-you-this-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-so-distracted-me-your-absence-fans-my-love-don-t-ask-how-then/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-something-to-be-said-for-anyone-who-sits-alone-with-dignity/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tis-easy-to-break-an-idol-very-easy-to-regard-the-self-as-easy-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/today-let-us-swim-wildly-joyously-in-gratitude/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [I have no name for what circles so perfectly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-no-name-for-what-circles-so-perfectly/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-draws-friends-together-does-not-conform-to-the-laws-of-nature/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We are born of love. Love is our mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-are-born-of-love-love-is-our-mother/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/water-stories-the-body-all-the-things-we-do-are-mediums-that-hid-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-heart-isn-t-yet-illumined-be-awake-always-be-a-seeker-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-came-back-to-you-because-i-could-not-find-the-kind-and-decent/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foolish/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "6 Foolish Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/start-a-huge-foolish-project-like-noah-it-makes-absolutely-no/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/rumi-56_achievement_start-a-huge-foolish-project-like-noah-i_322745.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/rumi-56_achievement_start-a-huge-foolish-project-like-noah-i_322745.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/rumi-56_achievement_start-a-huge-foolish-project-like-noah-i_322745.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. 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