Quotes about Enlightenment
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
— Sean Covey
I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.
— Barack Obama
One can't reach the Truth but through Love.
— St. Augustine
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
— Marianne Williamson
Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.
— Paulo Coelho
Lord, give me wisdom, not knowledge. Or rather the knowledge that leads to wisdom and true happiness and not the kind that leads to power.
— Etty Hillesum
Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.
— Eugene Peterson
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His love for each of us if we strive to be worthy of that love, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.
— James Faust
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
— Thomas Jefferson
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
— DH Lawrence
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas