Quotes About Enlightenment

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.