Quotes By Khalil Gibran

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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

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

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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.

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

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