Quotes by Khalil Gibran

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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

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

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.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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