Enlightened Quotes
630 quotes by 318 authors
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In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better…
— Scott Adams
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Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
— Italo Calvino
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we…
— Deepak Chopra
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
— Charles Sumner
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in…
— Christopher Columbus
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin…
— Alexander Hamilton
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and…
— Edith Wharton
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Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
— Sun Tzu
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An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
— Zhuge Liang
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The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is…
— Sun Tzu
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,…
— Satish Kumar
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O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I…
— Susan Jeffers
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
— George Washington
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened…
— W.C. Fields
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A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
— Eckhart Tolle
Who Wrote These Enlightened Quotes
318 authors contributed a total of 630 Enlightened Quotes, led by these top contributors: