Benighted Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

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
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
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
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
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour. — David Livingstone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave. — Robert Anton Wilson
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
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.
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

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