Best Enlightening Lines
194 Enlightening quotes by 155 unique authors
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Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of…
— William Herschel
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We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and…
— Howard Barker
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
— Tammy Bruce
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
— Beth Henley
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I would like to enlighten people.
— Sammy Hagar
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Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality…
— Tom Robbins
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The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to…
— Erasmus Darwin
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And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned…
— Joseph Conrad
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I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually…
— Jenny Hval
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
— John Dryden
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I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the…
— Elizabeth Edwards
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Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
— Michael Eisner
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
— Eugene Ionesco
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems…
— Alan Moore
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Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
— Jane Smiley
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is…
— Ben Stein
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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own…
— Swami Vivekananda
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