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Quotes About Enlightenment

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.
~ John Adams
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
~ John Adams
They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.
~ Frederick Lenz
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
~ Terence
The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
~ John Ruskin
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
~ Marisha Pessl
The goal is to know how not-to-know.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
~ Laozi
My final destination is my complete knowledge of God.
~ Kedar Joshi
Knowledge is no burden.
~ George Herbert
Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.
~ George Russell
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
~ Plato
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
~ Samuel Johnson
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~ William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~ William Shakespeare
I seek and search for the light of knowledge.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~ Lao-Tzu
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
~ Enrico Fermi
Ignorance annihilates self.
~ Jason Barnett
The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today
~ Pat Williams
After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.
~ Marty Rubin