Khalil Gibran Quotes

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Khalil Gibran

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 6, 1883

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

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.

Khalil Gibran

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran