Kahlil Gibran Quotes

1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
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“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
Knowledge
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
Beauty
“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
Dance and Dancing
“An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.”
Exaggeration
“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”
Adversity
“Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Beauty
“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”
Future
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
Doubt
“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.”
Silence
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
Friends and Friendship
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
VerifiedThe Prophet (1923) · evidencePain
“Say not, ''I have found the truth,'' but rather, ''I have found a truth.”
Truth
“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”
Simplicity
“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”
Advice
“The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.”
Teachers and Teaching
“Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.”
Friends and Friendship
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.”
Friends and Friendship
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
Generosity
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Love
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
Faith
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
Knowledge
“The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.”
Desire
“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”
Mind
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
Fun
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Nature
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Kahlil Gibran; no source in their known works. · evidenceSuffering
“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
Knowledge