Light Quotes

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Alastair Reid
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple
Bill cosby - the very first law in advertising is to avoid the...
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
William Hiram Foulkes
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lao tzu - the heavy is the root of the light. the tranquil...
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
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
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav Jung
Albert camus - the truth, as the light, makes blind....
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Johann von Goethe
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagorus
The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fea.
Psalm 27
The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.
Batman
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
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.
Kahlil Gibran
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Dick Francis, Twice Shy
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.
Maurice Druon
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Old Chinese Prove
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
Vincent McNa
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.
Erasmus
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry, Flight of White Crows
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
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
Kahlil Gibran
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
Donald Culross Peattie
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
E. H. Chapin
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker, book review
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts