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Wisdom Quotes by 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 voices…
- If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
- Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
- God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die…
- My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your…
- The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
- The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you…
- The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
- The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of…
- I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
- Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
- 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.
- A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
- If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
- To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
- Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
- Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
- Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
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