Light Quotes

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

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.

Unknown

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.

C. C. Colton

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Anonymous, Greensleeves

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

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

Amos Tversky

Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

Albert Einstein

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Napoleon I

Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.

Henry C. Blinn

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

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

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 is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Roosevelt, Eleano

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

Home

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Dbjanski

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinge

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Carl Jung

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing.

Epictetus

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

Oscar Wilde

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue - Fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Mahatma Gandhi