Quotes about Enlightenment
One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
— RC Sproul
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
— Henry David Thoreau
There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.
— Robin Sharma
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
— Victor Hugo
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
— Wayne Dyer
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
— William Hazlitt
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
— Phillips Brooks
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.
— Joseph Campbell
enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact...
— Joseph Campbell