Quotes About Illumination

All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

Celebro que los ingenieros no hayan inventado todavía el robot que pueda trabajar en la oscuridad total. Me horrorizaría encontrar siete robots en un pozo negro sin radiocomunicación, si no estuviesen iluminados como árboles de Navidad radiactivos.

The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

A torch-light procession marching down your throat.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

People don't want information; they want epiphanies.

Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done.

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.

Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.

The sun eventually rises, it's light slipping through the cracks and illuminating Peeta's face. Who will he transform into if we make it home? This perplexing, good-natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly the whole of Panem believes him to be hopelessly in love with me, and I'll admit it, there are moments when he makes me believe it myself?

he moved the flashlight beam around he realized there

The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

It is daylight for him. ...

The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated, they illumine.