Best Enlightening Quotes
194 Enlightening quotes by 155 unique authors
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I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.
— Ariana Grande
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
— Ice Cube
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Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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We are also told that this Spirit will enlighten our minds, fill our souls with joy, and help us know all things we should do.Promised…
— Julie B. Beck
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A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
— Bruce Davison
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger…
— John Stuart Mill
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there…
— Laozi
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There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to…
— Edward Humes
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Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma…
— Gautama Buddha
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The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance…
— William James
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.
— John Agard
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To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
— Phil Lesh
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Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics. Do thou, who…
— Pope Pius XII
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The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the…
— Thomas Merton
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Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play…
— Diane Ravitch
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Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start…
— Daniel Silva
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What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to…
— Roger Waters
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Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books
— Meles Zenawi
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
— Joseph Conrad
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
— Pasquier Quesnel
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FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my…
— Beverly Donofrio
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