"A thief is a man in need...." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
More by Khalil Gibran
“You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.”
“For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
“He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]”
More on Understanding
“How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.”
“The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.”
“What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.”