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Quotes About Enlightenment

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The root of suffering is attachment
~ Gautama Buddha
The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism
~ Samael Aun Weor
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.
~ Confucius
To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
~ Gautama Buddha
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
~ Janet Jackson
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
~ Heraclitus
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
~ Atisa
Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
~ Immanuel Kant
True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
~ Laozi
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
~ Hugo Grotius
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
~ William Shakespeare
If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
~ Gautama Buddha
Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.
~ Huineng
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
~ Ram Dass
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
~ Bodhidharma