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Khalil Gibran
(6 Jan 1883 - 10 Apr 1931)
Lebanese-American writer, poet and artist , who moved as a child with his family to America in 1895. He wrote inspirational works, including The Prophet, a slim book of parables that by 1986 had sold almost eight million copies in the U.S.
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Science Quotes by Khalil Gibran (14 quotes)
A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again - and he said, “A mouse will do.”
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 18.
A scientist without imagination is a butcher with dull knives and out-worn scales.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 204.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 181.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
— Khalil Gibran
In The Kahlil Gibran Reader: Inspirational Writings (2006), 38.
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 203.
If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 204.
Last night I invented a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house. They met at my door and fought with each other over my newly created pleasure; the one crying, “It is a sin!” - the other, “It is a virtue!”
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 21.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 134.
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
— Khalil Gibran
In The Kahlil Gibran Reader: Inspirational Writings (2006), 41.
Strife in nature is but disorder longing for order.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 203.
The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding. … And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 134.
There is neither religion nor science beyond beauty.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 206.
We shall never understand each other until we reduce the language to seven words.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 187.
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
— Khalil Gibran
In Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works (2007), 188.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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