Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.Kahlil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.Kahlil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.Kahlil Gibran
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.Kahlil Gibran
