Khalil Gibran Quotes on Truth (17 Quotes)


    You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

    Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

    All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and your are the mirror.

    Virtue tested Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart

    Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.


    Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

    Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

    Do not be frightened, for I am now Truth, spared from swords and fire to reveal to the people the triumph of Love over War.


    Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

    When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.


    Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...

    In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

    I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

    When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

    Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.


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