Lebanese - Poet | January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931
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
TruthHeartSympathyYouLookSee
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
HeartMindLookPersonUnderstand
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
FearPathPerfectionBloodNever
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.
WisdomTeacherWiseMindYouHouse
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
WorkLoveJoyBetterYouTemple
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
KnowledgeSeedsYourSowDoes
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
WorkMusicHeartTogetherYouDumb
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
TruthWindowSeeThroughUsLike
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
DeathPeopleHonorLandOwnPoet
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
KnowledgeArtIgnoranceImagination
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.
TimeFaceMotionUsBeenChanged
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.
MotherKnowledgeMeSelfKnowAtoms
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Khalil Gibran quotes