Quotes about Enlightenment

I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

To say that I was born again, to use that traditional phrase, is to say too much because I remained in most ways as self-centered and squeamish after the fact as I was before, and God knows remain so still. And in another way to say that I was born again is to say too little because there have been more than a few such moments since, times when from beyond time something too precious to tell has glinted in the dusk, always just out of reach, like fireflies.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.