Quotes About Light

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.