Quotes about Enlightenment
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
— James Madison
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
As the poet William Blake so eloquently stated: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
— Jen Sincero
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