When you say,
"I'm ignorant: teach me,"
such honesty is better
than a false reputation.
Learn from your father Adam,
O clear-browed man:
he said, "O our Lord"
and "We have done wrong."
He made no excuses,
nor did he invent lies,
nor did he lift up
the banner of evasion.
~ Rumi
-- Mathnawi IV: 1388-1390
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
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