Khalil Gibran Quotes

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Khalil Gibran

Time, Face, Changed

Your friend is your needs answered.
Khalil Gibran

Friend, Needs, Answered

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Nothing, Lies

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Great, Wisdom

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Rather, Found

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran

Lust, House, Comfort

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran

Religion, Humble, Him

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran

Faith, Live, Powerful

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran

Grow, Grass, Zeal

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil Gibran

Someone, Until, Seen

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Khalil Gibran

God, Heart, Close

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Spring, Rebellion

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran

Music, Work, Heart

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Beginning

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Road, Turn

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran

Give, Joy, Reward

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Khalil Gibran

Others, Advice, Act

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Khalil Gibran

Another, Turn, Number

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran

Death, Another, Survival

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil Gibran

Spring, Water, Avoid

You have your ideology and I have mine.
Khalil Gibran

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Through, Window

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Khalil Gibran

Soul, Between, Dream

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil Gibran

Human, Makes, Seem

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Sow, Seeds

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Poet

Born: January 6, 1883

Died: April 10, 1931

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