Light Quotes
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Max Planck
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
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.James Albert Michene
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.Lyndon Johnson
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.Carl Zwanzig
Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.Albert Einstein
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.Martin Luthe
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.George Santayana
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.John Owen
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
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 in poetry.Bertrand Russell
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
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, Collected poems (1952)
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.Rita Rudne
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Maxwell Planck
One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
