Khalil Gibran quotes

“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

“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”

— Khalil Gibran

“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Your friend is your needs answered.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“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

“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”

— 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

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“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?”

— Khalil Gibran

“You have your ideology and I have mine.”

— Khalil Gibran