Quotes About Light

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

I seek and search for the light of knowledge.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.

Light in Greek is the same thing as knowledge which is the opposite of ignorance.

All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.

Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues"- 1654

The essence of darkness is the knowledge of what blocks the light.

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.