Quotes About Enlightenment

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false "me" no longer identifies himself with his suffering.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often.

Wisdom is found in the least expected places.

Light up your life by turning on your brain."

Spiritual light does not attract insects."

The fuel of the brain is wisdom, without it you will get nowhere."

There is a supreme wisdom beyond human knowledge.

Until you have discernment, ignorance will be your main source of wisdom.

Water ignorance with knowledge that wisdom grows.

After I spent my whole life chasing wings, I learned that I don't need them to fly."

He who does not know wisdom thinks that ignorance is knowledge."

La ignorancia ignora la sabiduría.

Once a new and more reliable means of contact becomes commonplace, as it will, then this species is going to wake up to its true reason for existence, and in so doing is going to reach a whole new level of life.

Establishing the bridge between the worlds means a more competent, more peaceful and happier species.

The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.

You did not know, Little Man, what a library is for.

Foi Galileu, não Nero, quem assentou os fundamentos da tecnologia; Pasteur, e não Napoleão, quem combateu as enfermidades; Freud, e não Schickgruber, quem sondou as profundidades psíquicas. Foram esses cientistas, em suma, que asseguraram a nossa existência. Os outros apenas abusaram das realizações de grandes homens para destruir o processo vital. As raízes da ciência natural penetram mais fundo que qualquer transitório tumulto fascista.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?