Illumination Quotes

153 Illumination quotes by 127 unique authors

Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool… — Johnny Vegas
The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as… — Vilayat Inayat Khan
Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue. — Symeon the New Theologian
... I pray... that you may discern your affairs in a manner pleasing to God and may so act and endeavor that you may find… — Symeon the New Theologian
I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself.… — Rudolfo Anaya
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself… — Kitty Kelley
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men… — Roland Allen
Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection… — Kevin A. Ford
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. — John Clare
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. — Werner Herzog
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out… — David Fontana
The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. — James Mark Baldwin
It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right… — David Heyman
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we… — Audre Lorde
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful,… — Joshua Foer
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and… — Elizabeth Hardwick
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. — Andrew Lang
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on… — Anais Nin
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use… — David Ogilvy
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully

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