Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.