Khalil Gibran Quotes, Wise Quotes, Book Quotes

Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

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If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

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It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

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The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

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To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

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If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

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A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Spirit Quotes

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

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