Khalil Gibran Quotes

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

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

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

The least foolish is wise.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

When facts speak, the wise man listens.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.