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Khalil Gibran Quotes about Wisdom

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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

Wisdom, Men, Praise

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

Wisdom, Words Of Wisdom

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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

Wisdom, Selfish, Laughing

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Beauty, Spiritual, Wisdom

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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.

Wisdom, Lying, Son

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Anger

Sand and Foam (1926) p. 59

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Advice

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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

Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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

Inspirational, Wisdom, May

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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

Wisdom, Art, Vision

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

Suicide, Wisdom, Fun

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

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.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

Khalil Gibran, “Self-Knowledge XVII”

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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, Land, Jail

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.

Mother, Wisdom, Self

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

Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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

Wise, Wisdom, Aggravation

"Visualizing Categorical Data". Book by Michael Friendly, ch. 3.5, p. 85, 2000.

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

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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.

Life, Wisdom, Eye

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

Wise, Wisdom, Truth

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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