Quotes about Enlightenment
A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is finer than pearls.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the seed, intelligence is the stem, understanding is the branch, and wisdom is the fruit.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
— Milan Kundera
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
— Maya Angelou
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
— Tertullian
all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;
— Thomas a Kempis
Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.
— St. Thomas Aquinas