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Khalil Gibran

1883-1931. Full name Gibran Khalil Gibran, Lebanon-born poet and writer.

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

categories: Authority, Government

2. "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

source: "Between Reality and Fantasy"

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

3. "The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say."

categories: Human

4. "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

categories: Various

5. "Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion."

categories: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

6. "Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity."

categories: Marriage

7. "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."

categories: Various -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

8. "If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

categories: Loyalty and Betrayal -:- Various

9. "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

categories: Love

10. "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

categories: Education

11. "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

categories: Various

12. "Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."

categories: Woman and Man -:- Reality and Imagination

13. "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

source: "The Prophet"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness


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