Light Quotes

Unknown - that which we obtain too easily, we esteem too...
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav Jung
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis".
James arthur baldwin - the sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to...
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Dbjanski - nothing in biology makes sense except in the...
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
John Quinton
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
Lao Tzu
All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Doris Lessing
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
William Hiram Foulkes
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
Jack Kerouac
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Taylor Benson
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Frank Outlaw
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.
C. C. Colton
And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.
Newt Gingrich
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.
Unknown
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Edmund Spense
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Prove
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
Henry Watton
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.
Maurice Druon
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.
Horace
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
Chinese Prove
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake