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Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist best known for *The Prophet*, a book of poetic essays that has been translated into over 100 languages. His lyrical reflections on love, marriage, work, and death blend Eastern mysticism with Western romanticism in a voice that is entirely his own.

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

— Khalil Gibran

Art

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“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.”

— Khalil Gibran

Friendship

“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?”

— Khalil Gibran

Music

“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.”

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge

“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”

— Khalil Gibran

Fear

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

— Khalil Gibran

Beauty

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”

— Khalil Gibran

Truth

“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”

— Khalil Gibran

Religion

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

— Khalil Gibran

Beauty

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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

Sad

“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.”

— Khalil Gibran

Time

“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”

— Khalil Gibran

Great

“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”

— Khalil Gibran

Truth

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

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

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge