Khalil Gibran Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.”

“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 your mind.”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

“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.”

“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”

“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.”

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.”

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”