Light Quotes

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Siddha Nagarjuna

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Raymond Holliwell

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

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

Plato

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Dick Francis, Twice Shy

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

J. B. Priestley

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

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

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

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

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light.

Maurice Freehill

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive - - Like famine victims.

Dana Hatch

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Johann von Goethe

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra, physicist

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

Albert Schweitze

The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.

Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov