Light Quotes

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Isaac Newton

There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurbe

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Jane Goodall

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

Visions of Gregorian Chants

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color - Blind.

Albert Schweitze

Put out the light.

Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Marrion Zimmer Bradley

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Anonymous, Greensleeves

Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.

Unknown

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

Vicomte de Chateaubriand

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

Oscar Wilde

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjold

I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Dr. Martin Luther King