Quotes About Enlightenment

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.