Light Quotes

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

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

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away... an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good - Bye.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD - ROM

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Henry Louis Mencken

The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight.

Batman

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

Doug McLeod

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

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

I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...

Geronimo

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

Psalm 27

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Titus Livius

What is to give light must endure burning.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl

What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

John Fletcher, 1647

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

Amos Tversky

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

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

Christopher Columbus

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

John Gay

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferbe

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Carl Jung