Quotes about Enlightenment

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

the ancient wisdom of the Indian philosophers declares, "It is Mâyâ, the veil of deception, which blinds the eyes of mortals, and makes them behold a world of which they cannot say either that it is or that it is not: for it is like a dream; it is like the sunshine on the sand which the traveller takes from afar for water, or the stray piece of rope he mistakes for a snake.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.