Light Quotes
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
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
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.Jess Lai
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.Amos Tversky
Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
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 do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.John Claypool
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.Henry Louis Mencken
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.Jack Kerouac
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.William Safire
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
The truth, as the light, makes blind.Albert Camus
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
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
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
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
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
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
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.Bernard Meltze
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.Seneca
There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is only seen if there is a light within.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.E. e. cummings
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.Georges Bataille
Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.G. K. Chesterton
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.Dorothy Parker, book review
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
