105 Quotes By Khalil Gibran


Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran on strength

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 on sympathy

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

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.
Khalil Gibran on teacher

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 on time

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Khalil Gibran on time

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran on trust

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran on truth

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.
Khalil Gibran on truth

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 on truth

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 on truth

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran on truth

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran on truth

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

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

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

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.
Khalil Gibran on wisdom

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran on wisdom

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

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 on wisdom