Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
