Khalil Gibran Quotes

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Never take advice from a donkey.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.