Light Quotes

Bertrand russell - if a man is offered a fact which goes against his...
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
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Prove
Sharon salzberg - life is like an ever - shifting kaleidoscope - a...
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
George Jean Nathan
Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
John Owen
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
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 will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Frank Outlaw
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Sydney smith, referring to macaulay - he had occasional flashes of silence, that made...
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Sri Madhava
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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
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
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
George Eliot
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 sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko Yoshida
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
William Shakespeare
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Jung
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God? s existence.
Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
John Milton
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Dbjanski
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
Jack Kerouac
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.
Marrion Zimmer Bradley
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
Martin Luthe