Education Enlightenment Quotes

#1. The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

Napoleon Hill

#2. The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

Martin Luther

#3. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Vera Nazarian

#4. Education provide enlightenment for one's life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.

Immanuel Kant

#6. It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#7. There is indeed something preposterous about well-educated Westerners racing East in search of spiritual enlightenment while Easterners make the opposite pilgrimage seeking education and economic opportunities.

Sam Harris

#8. Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.

Voltaire

#9. The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Van Morrison

#11. Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#12. There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.

Uzoma Nnadi

#13. True education is enlightenment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Thiruvalluvar

#15. Enlightenment is the key to empowerment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.

Bryant McGill

#17. Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Terence McKenna

#18. Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Derrick A. Bell

#19. Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Enlightenment is light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#22. It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

Plato

#23. Education is the greatest gift to enlightenment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

John Lubbock

#25. 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.

H.L. Mencken

#26. Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Knowledge is a priceless gift of enlightenment

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#29. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Socrates

#30. Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.

Karl Jaspers