Quotes About Enlightenment

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

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

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.