Brightness Quotes

198 Brightness quotes by 160 unique authors

God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth… — John of Kronstadt
Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness. — Anthony D. Williams
When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What… — Charles Dickens
A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Donâ€™t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, donâ€™t rise or fall with them. Whatâ€™s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It… — Ajahn Chah
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of… — Ajahn Sumedho
I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon. — Peter Ackroyd
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of… — Joan Didion
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers… — W. E. B. Du Bois
You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness… — Sarah Manguso
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's… — Thomas Otway
Use your light, but dim your brightness. — Laozi
Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. — Laozi
This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz
There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the… — Symeon the New Theologian
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness… — Gerhard Richter
The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches… — Frederick Lenz

Who Wrote These Brightness Quotes

160 authors contributed a total of 198 Brightness Quotes, led by these top contributors: