Quotes of: Enlighten Keyword

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.

Uzoma Nnadi

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

William Howard Taft

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

David K. E. Bruce

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Wendell Willkie

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the birds..but I say to you, why should you dism...

C. JoyBell C.

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

Drop It! Practical Guide to Self Enlightenment

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

In Defence of the Enlightenment

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Essays: First Series

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.

Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

The Book of My Lives

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

Jared Sparks

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

Morihei Ueshiba

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

Takashi Murakami

To Do Today, 1/17/08 1. Sit and think 2. Reach enlightenment 3. Feed the cats

I Should Have Renamed This

Inside your heart A golden flower blossoms; Inside of me And inside of you Never dying . . . This flower of your soul

Songs of Enlightenment

Nothing of heaven or earth Can take this heart Filled with love Nothing of heaven or earth Can divide us From cosmic energy

Songs of Enlightenment

Truth and effort may increase human worth But they are not enough to make us whole; Only love can complete us.

Songs of Enlightenment

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words only and only if life have put and made us requiring them.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut