Quotes About Enlightenment

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

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering

You're suffering from some serious myopia my friend.

She understood that the truth of things was upside down. She grasped that those who thought they knew were ignorant, that those who thought they had power were powerless, and that those who thought they knew themselves were in great darkness.

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see. Our

Un soplo, un rayo de luz, una sensación bastarían para animar la hermosa piedra, que teniendo ya todas las galas de la forma, carecía tan sólo de la conciencia de su propia belleza, la cual emana de la facultad de conocer la belleza exterior.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Neoplatonists also believed that the vast variety of human thought, if traced back to the One Source—what Leonardo da Vinci called the Prime Mover—would lead to spiritual enlightenment and ultimately to God. This and the mystical texts that Ficino was translating led him to attempt a fusion of all mystical beliefs, from Greek gnosticism to Egyptian hermeneutics to Christian cosmology—and to Jewish Kabbalah.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

an investment in education gives the best returns

To be proud of Knowledge, is to be blind with Light.

You will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv'd and practis'd on.

with tears and inward supplication besought him so to open my understanding that I might know his will concerning me;

Truth is brighter than light.

which we once esteemed truths, were errors; and that others, which we had esteemed errors, were real truths.