Illuminating Quotes

88 Illuminating quotes by 86 unique authors

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art. — Robert Burchfield
What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their… — Richard Louv
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that… — Unknown Author
I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between… — Tony Blair
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating… — Adyashanti
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not… — Egon Friedell
The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen,… — Nevill Drury
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the… — Owen Barfield
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix… — Christiane Northrup
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook… — Jonathan Safran Foer
When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating… — Daisaku Ikeda
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. — Henri Matisse
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to… — Wilferd Peterson
We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh
Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits… — Wislawa Szymborska
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read… — Daniel Pennac
As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna… — Suzanne Collins
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of… — Daniel Dennett
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious… — Steven Erikson
Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her… — Margaret George
Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on… — Tan Twan Eng

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