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Quotes About Enlightenment

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.
~ Zack de la Rocha
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
~ Saint Augustine
They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
~ Ramakrishna
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.
~ Vishnudevananda Saraswati
The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
~ Wei Wu Wei
If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
~ Bodhidharma
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
~ Gautama Buddha
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
~ Voltaire
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
~ Khalil Gibran
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
~ Confucius
Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.
~ Gautama Buddha
Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
~ Gautama Buddha
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
~ Nikola Tesla
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
~ Albert Einstein
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one's natural, original state.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.
~ Gautama Buddha
How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
~ Neil Peart
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
~ Victor Hugo
There is no religion higher than Truth.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.
~ Arthur Eddington