Illuminating Quotes

88 Illuminating quotes by 86 unique authors

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. — Mitch Albom
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences… — Ray Lankester
Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all… — Laozi
For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for… — Mary Caroline Richards
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. — B.K.S. Iyengar
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,… — Michio Kaku
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of… — E. O. Wilson
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor… — Richard Livingstone
To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that… — Amy Wright
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as… — Khalil Gibran
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. — Alfred North Whitehead
This book is a must for anyone who wants to know how leaders develop their practices within a community context. Bordas has pulled together illuminating… — Rinku Sen
In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most… — Unknown Author
It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted,… — Walter Lippmann
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to… — Megan Abbott
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. — Hermann Oberth
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is… — Norbert Wiener
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl… — William Appleman Williams
The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through… — Thomas Merton
Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought. — Jon Meacham
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to… — David Malouf
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details… — John Polkinghorne
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has… — Edith Hall

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