Quotes about Enlightenment

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

The best mind altering drug is the truth.

I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.

The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

We can regard ourselves as already awake; we can regard our world as already sacred.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.

When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.

Among some of the famous men educated by the Jesuits we find Bossuet, Corneille, Molière, Tasso, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire, and Bourdaloue, himself a Jesuit.

He who is influenced neither by the soaking in of slander nor by the assault of denunciation may indeed be called illumined.

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.