Light Quotes
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Dr. Martin Luther King
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.Bertrand Russell
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.Aaron Bu
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.George Santayana
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.Isaac Asimov
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
People are like stained - Glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beuty is revealed only if there is a light from within.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.Jennie Jerome Churchill
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
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
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.Old Chinese Prove
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.Erich Segal
In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.Home
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.The London Times
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.Gwendolyn Brooks
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.Albert Einstein
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.William Shakespeare
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind.Albert Schweitze
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.David Weatherford
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.Theodore Hesburgh
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
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
