Quotes About Enlightenment

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.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

You can not rise above your understanding, yet our understanding largely stems from the quality and quantity of knowledge we have been privileged to acquire.

I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance

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

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.

Knowledge is the first step of enlightenment

Knowledge is a priceless gift of enlightenment

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

Knowing something is always never enough understanding it, is "Key

The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

If I could know me I could know the universe.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.