Benighted Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more…
— James Buchan
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more…
— Allan Bloom
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon,…
— Charles Lamb
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Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
— David Livingstone
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's…
— John Milton
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an…
— Norman Mailer
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Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of…
— Henry Louis Gates
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul…
— John Milton
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when…
— Marcel Proust
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In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope…
— Will Self
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher…
— Kate Atkinson
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Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light…
— Haruki Murakami
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Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of…
— William James
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom…
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life,…
— James McGreevey
Who Wrote These Benighted Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Benighted Quotes as follows: