Knowledge is to know knowledge; knowledge is to know yourself
If you do not know yourself, then what is all this reading?
Yunus Emre, Dîvân (13th-14th century); the form found in common manuscripts.
Reading is easy.
The more a person reads, the more he thinks he is someone.
Yunus puts the question elsewhere:
Who are you?
Whoever does not know this
reads every book from the same place.
From before his own closed door.
The couplet does not stand like an accusation.
In the second line there is only a question:
What is all this reading?
The answer is not written in a book.