Khalil Gibran Wisdom Quotations

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

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

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

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.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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

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

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.