Light Quotes

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurbe

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Hodding Carte

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)

I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.

Batman

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

Daylight follows a dark night.

Maasai Prove

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Unknown

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Robert Darwin

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Marrion Zimmer Bradley

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fulle

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Kingsley

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Lyndon Johnson

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have And take the step into the darkness of the unknown We must believe that one of two things wil happen... There will be something solid for us to stand on.. ..... or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

George Eliot

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...

Geronimo

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra, physicist