Quotes about Enlightenment
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament, to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
— James Madison
Quotes. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
— James Madison
If thine eye be single, the whole body is full of light
— Dorothy Sayers
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is a dark night to man in this life.
— John of the Cross
Light means nothing to a blind man.
— AW Tozer
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
— Richard Baxter
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.
— Charles Spurgeon
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.
— Ezra Taft Benson