Light Quotes
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.Woodrow Wilson
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
We don? t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don? t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.Henry C. Blinn
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.Jack Kerouac
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.Bertrand Russell
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.Julie Burchill
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.Jesse Lai
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.John Quinton
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.Ovid
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.Erich Segal
More light! Give me more light!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.Home
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.Douglas Adams
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.Horace
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.Dbjanski
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.William Safire
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.Roosevelt, Eleano
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.Taylor Benson
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.Carl Sandburg
He who has great power should use it lightly.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.Margaret Fulle
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.Unknown
What is to give light must endure burning.Dr. Viktor E Frankl
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.Mother Theresa
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.J. B. Priestley
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
