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Quotes About Enlightenment

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.
~ Jim Rohn
Education made us what we are.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~ Stephen Vizinczey
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
~ John Adams
The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.
~ Max Muller
If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.
~ Derek Bok
The real safeguard of democracy is education.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
~ Thomas Jefferson
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The only way to be totally free is through education.
~ Jose Marti
Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.
~ Sai Baba
Some people would rather die than think.
~ Bertrand Russell
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
~ Aristotle
Laughter is beyond truth - the ultimate happiness.
~ Govinda
I love to learn, I love to be educated on different levels.
~ Yo Gotti
When I read books, my life changes.
~ Pooja Bedi
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
~ Bodhidharma
In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?
~ Bruno Ganz
Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
There's a great many things hard to fathom in darkness that set themselves straight in the light of day.
~ Diane Setterfield