--- title: "22 Knows Quotes By Khalil Gibran" description: "22 Knows quotes by Khalil Gibran. Plus more from Khalil Gibran and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35a/khalil-gibran-286_doe_history-does-not-repeat-itself-except-in_2617403.jpg" --- > [History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/history-does-not-repeat-itself-except-in-the-minds-of-those-who-do/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35a/khalil-gibran-286_doe_history-does-not-repeat-itself-except-in_2617403.jpg) > [The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-ageless-melody-unheard-heals-the-healing-vision-unseen-leads-the/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4c/khalil-gibran-286_ageless_the-ageless-melody-unheard-heals-the-hea_3107551.jpg) > [The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-nearest-to-my-heart-are-a-king-without-a-kingdom-and-a-poor-man/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/khalil-gibran-286_doe_the-nearest-to-my-heart-are-a-king-witho_3054824.jpg) > [Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/why-dispute-what-we-shall-be-when-we-know-not-even-what-we-are/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/khalil-gibran-286_dispute_why-dispute-what-we-shall-be-when-we-kno_2798065.jpg) > [For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/for-this-i-bless-you-most-you-give-much-and-know-not-that-you-give-at/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/khalil-gibran-286_bless_for-this-i-bless-you-most-you-give-much_1323764.jpg) > [What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/what-the-soul-knows-is-often-unknown-to-the-man-who-has-a-soul-we-are/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7f/khalil-gibran-286_he-man_what-the-soul-knows-is-often-unknown-to_148877.jpg) > [Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/of-time-you-would-make-a-stream-upon-whose-bank-you-would-sit-and/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/052/khalil-gibran-286_dream_of-time-you-would-make-a-stream-upon-who_574006.jpg) > [He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/he-who-understands-you-is-greater-kin-to-you-than-your-own-brother/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecb/khalil-gibran-286_brother_he-who-understands-you-is-greater-kin-to_2281543.jpg) > [Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/yet-you-shall-not-deplore-having-known-blindness-nor-regret-having/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/khalil-gibran-286_all-things_yet-you-shall-not-deplore-having-known-b_3044265.jpg) > [There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/there-are-those-who-give-and-know-not-pain-in-giving-nor-do-they-seek/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf5/khalil-gibran-286_breathe_there-are-those-who-give-and-know-not-pa_2413540.jpg) > [Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/your-pain-is-the-breaking-of-the-shell-that-encloses-your/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/khalil-gibran-286_break_your-pain-is-the-breaking-of-the-shell-t_1579.jpg) > [And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/and-if-you-would-know-god-be-not-therefore-a-solver-of-riddles-rather-2/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/khalil-gibran-286_children_and-if-you-would-know-god-be-not-therefo_1686779.jpg) > [He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. \[for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/he-who-has-not-looked-on-sorrow-will-never-see-joy-for-without-sorrow/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/khalil-gibran-286_clarity_he-who-has-not-looked-on-sorrow-will-nev_996185.jpg) > [Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/doubt-is-a-pain-too-lonely-to-know-that-faith-is-his-twin-brother/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a87/khalil-gibran-286_birth_doubt-is-a-pain-too-lonely-to-know-that_239375.jpg) > [Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/your-hearts-know-in-silence-the-secrets-of-the-days-and-the-nights-3/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d37/khalil-gibran-286_body_your-hearts-know-in-silence-the-secrets_2515573.jpg) > [There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/there-are-those-who-give-with-joy-and-that-joy-is-their-reward-and/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b5/khalil-gibran-286_baptism_there-are-those-who-give-with-joy-and-th_1245031.jpg) > [Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/each-thing-that-exists-remains-forever-and-that-very-existence-of/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/khalil-gibran-286_altered_each-thing-that-exists-remains-forever-a_2418848.jpg) > [Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/like-the-ocean-is-your-god-self-it-remains-for-ever-undefiled-and/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/khalil-gibran-286_awakening_like-the-ocean-is-your-god-self-it-remai_78897.jpg) > [My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/my-soul-gave-me-good-counsel-teaching-me-never-to-delight-in-praise/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/khalil-gibran-286_accolades_my-soul-gave-me-good-counsel-teaching-me_2460125.jpg) > [You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/you-would-know-the-secret-of-death-but-how-shall-you-find-it-unless-2/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/318/khalil-gibran-286_blind_you-would-know-the-secret-of-death-but-h_2881732.jpg) > [Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/like-sheaves-of-corn-it-gathers-you-unto-itself-it-threshes-you-to/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/khalil-gibran-286_bread_like-sheaves-of-corn-it-gathers-you-unto_1944921.jpg) > [I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/i-have-pondered-long-and-i-know-now-that-only-the-pure-of-heart/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e12/khalil-gibran-286_feet_i-have-pondered-long-and-i-know-now-that_2771507.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## More by Khalil Gibran > [Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/your-pain-is-the-breaking-of-the-shell-that-encloses-your/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-you-are-poor-shun-association-with-him-who-measures-men-with-the/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/hate-is-a-dead-thing-who-of-you-would-be-a-tomb/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/seek-ye-counsel-of-the-aged-for-their-eyes-have-looked-on-the-faces/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/only-once-have-i-been-made-mute-it-was-when-a-man-asked-me-who-are-you/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-truly-just-is-he-who-feels-half-guilty-of-your-misdeeds/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [“follow the steps trust them and yourself”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/follow-the-steps-trust-them-and-yourself/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/beauty-is-not-a-need-but-an-ecstasy-it-is-not-a-mouth-thirsting-nor/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/i-have-never-agreed-with-my-other-self-wholly-the-truth-of-the-matter/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/that-which-sings-and-contemplates-in-you-is-still-dwelling-within-the/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/you-pray-in-your-distress-and-in-your-need-would-that-you-might-also/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-veil-that-clouds-your-eyes-shall-be-lifted-by-the-hands-that-wove/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/work-is-love-made-visible-and-if-you-cannot-work-with-love-but-only/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/joy-and-sorrow-are-inseparable-together-they-come-and-when-one-sits/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) > [Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/like-the-ocean-is-your-god-self-it-remains-for-ever-undefiled-and/) [Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/khalil-gibran/#itemlist", "name": "22 Knows Quotes By Khalil Gibran", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Khalil Gibran" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/history-does-not-repeat-itself-except-in-the-minds-of-those-who-do/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35a/khalil-gibran-286_doe_history-does-not-repeat-itself-except-in_2617403.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35a/khalil-gibran-286_doe_history-does-not-repeat-itself-except-in_2617403.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35a/khalil-gibran-286_doe_history-does-not-repeat-itself-except-in_2617403.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.” — Khalil Gibran", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know…", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Khalil Gibran" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-ageless-melody-unheard-heals-the-healing-vision-unseen-leads-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4c/khalil-gibran-286_ageless_the-ageless-melody-unheard-heals-the-hea_3107551.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4c/khalil-gibran-286_ageless_the-ageless-melody-unheard-heals-the-hea_3107551.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4c/khalil-gibran-286_ageless_the-ageless-melody-unheard-heals-the-hea_3107551.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know…” — Khalil Gibran", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Khalil Gibran" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-nearest-to-my-heart-are-a-king-without-a-kingdom-and-a-poor-man/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/khalil-gibran-286_doe_the-nearest-to-my-heart-are-a-king-witho_3054824.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/khalil-gibran-286_doe_the-nearest-to-my-heart-are-a-king-witho_3054824.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/khalil-gibran-286_doe_the-nearest-to-my-heart-are-a-king-witho_3054824.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.” — Khalil Gibran", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Khalil Gibran" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/why-dispute-what-we-shall-be-when-we-know-not-even-what-we-are/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/khalil-gibran-286_dispute_why-dispute-what-we-shall-be-when-we-kno_2798065.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/khalil-gibran-286_dispute_why-dispute-what-we-shall-be-when-we-kno_2798065.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/khalil-gibran-286_dispute_why-dispute-what-we-shall-be-when-we-kno_2798065.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.” — Khalil Gibran", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For this I bless you most. 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