Quotes About Enlightenment

once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany's fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance were weaknesses—"Jewish" ideas that led to defeat.

The unknown words remind me that there's a lot I don't know in this world.

The fact that - I mean, these are things to be talked about. You can't do anything without educating the public, right? And that's a slow work.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

Wisdom is the ability to see the invisible

Reveal God to the people and teach them His ways

If you work on yourself spiritually, you will be able to realize your potential

An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold.

Education is a great treasure.

Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He's without conflict, he's too far along on his journey toward enlightenment to be a good protagonist. Our protagonists have to be struggling with demons in a certain way.

Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.