Quotes About Illumination

A leader is a lamp not just a sign board.

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

Where there is darkness, there once was light.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

There's power within you, and it's your job to turn the lights on.

A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts.

Education ignites the lights in the darkness of life.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

The sun enlightens everyone, but the light of knowledge enlightens those who are actively seeking the light.

Knowledge is light.

I go to bed with knowledge to dream, then dreams wake me up with the lights of wisdom.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

Je revoyais, sous la clarté de mon briquet, Clarius étendu sur l'herbe, sur sa croix je veux dire ; j'entendais son « Tue-moi ». Au point où il en était, ça faisait un homme voué à la mort.

These old eyes of mine barely see your hands on the table. Illuminated by this candlelight, they look like yellow spiders. Still, they're finely wrought Jewish hands. Whatever they hold, shall not easily be relinquished.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.