Quotes About Enlightenment

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

Saber no tiene nada que ver con ser.

Strive for wisdom! Or at least a decrease in idiocy.

ignorancia, efectivamente, es la felicidad.

May your path always lead to knowledge, Prisoner. Knowledge to freedom.

One can be both entertained and educated and not know the difference".

When every activity of life becomes a way to know G-d, evil simply withers away and dies.

He made the hearts of Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva stubborn, so they could traverse the highway from ignorance to enlightenment in adulthood.

the objective of all man's toil in this world: To reach beyond his own mind.

T?t c? m?i th?, k? c? có v? t?m phào, má»™t ngày nào Ä'ó cÅ©ng có th? tr? nên h?u ích. ?i?u quan tr?ng là bi?t ???c Ä'i?u mà ng??i khác không bi?t là b?n bi?t.

If God existed, he would be a library.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

And that will be full knowledge, the learning of the singular.

What we have to do is to judge which side stands for freedom and enlightenment and which for medievalism and superstition.

In the second decade of this century of enlightenment and progress, in our free American democracy, whose constitution proclaims religious toleration, and forbids the establishment by the state of any form of worship, I was made to serve a sentence of eighteen hours in the state prison of Delaware for playing a game of tennis on the Sabbath. I

Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying points for evil.

Blind is he who will not see!

To learn to read is to light a fire;

Se ignora lo que se debe saber, y se sabe lo que se debería ignorar.

Je vois de la lumière neuve (I see a new light)