Light Quotes

10393 quotes by 5266 authors

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not… — Margaret Atwood
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,… — Sri Aurobindo
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. — Irving Babbitt
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study… — Richard Bach
I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and… — Michele Bachmann
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together:… — Francis Bacon
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and… — Walter Bagehot
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and… — David Bailey
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was… — Tyra Banks
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey

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