« All Him Quotes · Khalil Gibran's Page
Him Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of…
- And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what…
- The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you…
- A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,…
- Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by…
- Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity…
- When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is…
- The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear…
- And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
- They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see…
- When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness;…
- The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
- He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to…
- And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those…
- He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his…
- My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do…
- And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him…
- And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
- Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own…
- The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him…
- Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of…
- If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul…
- The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.
- In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies…
- I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden