Illumination Quotes · Page 4

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

— Charles Darwin

“I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

— Henri Poincare

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

— Eugene Delacroix

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

— Anonymous

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

— Robert Green Ingersoll

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

— James Mark Baldwin

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any…

— Paul Fussell

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge…

— Ramakrishna

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely…

— Wayne Dyer

“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have…

— Will Willingham

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through…

— May Sarton

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends…

— Harry S. Truman

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research,…

— David Ogilvy

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into…

— Dalai Lama

“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India…

— Frank Waters

There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be…

— Kate Chopin

The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give…

— Marilyn Ferguson

“The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name…

— Marie NDiaye

I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a…

— August Krogh

“...I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind...”

— John Geddes

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

— Vin Scully

“Our identity should be about what sphere of life we ought to bring to light as Christians”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.”

— Raphael Zernoff

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

— Adam Weishaupt

“Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

— Ellen Glasgow

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

— Swami Vivekananda

One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.

— F. E. Marsh

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

— Swami Prabhavananda

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you…

— Victor Hugo

Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them.

— George Andrews

The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.

— Samael Aun Weor