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Quotes About Enlighten

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
~ Trevor Noah
If enlightened public opinion was a bulwark of freedom, then leaders must labor ceaselessly to enlighten or manipulate it.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils.
~ Debasish Mridha
It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.
~ David Wolfe
Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
~ Debasish Mridha
I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.
~ Debasish Mridha
The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others.
~ Robin Sacredfire
Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.
~ Debasish Mridha
It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.
~ Jeane Manning
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
~ Derek Bok
'Bamboozled' is the grassroots that will enlighten Americans from all backgrounds and political affiliations to the true history of the Democrat party and the facts about what liberal policies have done to our nation and communities of color.
~ Angela McGlowan
Let us not teach them, but amuse them.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and that's what they'll become.
~ Del Close
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
~ Robert Frost
The process of healing is to enlighten your life to the greatness of That Which Is in the universe.
~ Eric Pearl
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
~ Robert Bridges
Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.
~ Justus von Liebig
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
~ Robert Frost
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.
~ Aldous Huxley
He who is unwilling to trust to the power of thinking cannot, in fact, enlighten himself regarding higher spiritual facts.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
~ Starhawk
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
~ Aaron Betsky