Famous Quotes

Quotes by Khalil Gibran

• Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
• March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
• No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
• 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.
• Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
• Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
• Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
• The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
• The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
• The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
• 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.
• To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
• Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
• When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
• When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
• 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?
• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
• Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.