Khalil Gibran Quotes
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
Gibran, Kahlil. The Voice of the Master. Citadel Press, 1958, p. 39.
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Traditional Islamic education of the time only dealt with the Koran but the skills of modern life, medicine, law, science were taught in the British secular schools, which Muslims generally would not attend. Kahn urged all is fellow Muslims to benefit from all forms of education.
Gibran Khalil Gibran, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced /kɑːˈliːl dʒɪˈbrɑːn/ kah-LEEL ji-BRAHN), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.