Enlightened Quotes

630 Enlightened quotes by 307 unique authors

Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your… — Samuel Warren Carey
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength. — Laozi
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will… — Thaddeus Golas
I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is… — Thaddeus Golas
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our… — Nelson Mandela
I embrace the concept of enlightened self-interest - that in doing something for others, people also reap profound benefits for themselves. It might involve a… — Simon McKeon
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to… — Aldo Leopold
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual understanding and energy… — Keith K. Hilbig
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in… — Ramakrishna
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now… — Sarah Moore Grimke
If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you....As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates… — Nelson Mandela
Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi… — Pope Benedict XVI
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source… — Alexander Hamilton
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive… — James Madison
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and… — Margot Livesey
The reason for forgiving your enemies is not for their benefit but for your own benefit. Holding grudges against other people doesn’t hurt them; doesn’t even bother them much… — Brad Blanton
Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable… — Yasmina Khadra

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