Light Quotes

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra, physicist

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Jack Kerouac

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Aaron Bu

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Kelle

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNa

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.

Carl Jung

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Sir John Denham

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ... and yet no endless sorrow.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis".

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fea.

Psalm 27

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Hodding Carte

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

John Milton

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn