Khalil Gibran Quotes

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

A wise man is better than a prophet.

One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

A word to the wise is sufficient

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.