Quotes About Enlightenment

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Ignorance breeds fear.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

I'm against ignorance.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

Ignore the ignorant.

The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness.

Words are illusions.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.