Light Quotes

Sir issac newton, on how he made discoveries - by always thinking unto them. i keep the subject...
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
William Shakespeare
Ralph waldo emerson - light is the first of painters. there is no...
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
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker, book review
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Maxwell Planck
In saffron - Colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
Home
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.
Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
Carl Zwanzig
More light! Give me more light!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
William Hiram Foulkes
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004
Theodore roosevelt - far better it is to dare mighty things, to win...
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Taylor Benson
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.
Thomas De Quincey
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
Henry Watton
Daylight follows a dark night.
Maasai Prove
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.
Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fea.
Psalm 27
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.
C. C. Colton
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
English Prove
There is no place more delightful than home.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
N. P. Willis
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beeche
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 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 Humphrey
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.
Ferdinand Hodle
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
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats