Quotes about Enlightenment
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man who prays ceases to be a fool
— Oswald Chambers
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
— Abraham Lincoln
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
— Bruce Lee
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
— Joseph Addison
Humility is the light of understanding.
— John Bunyan
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
— Henry David Thoreau