Enlightening Quotes

#1. The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

Matthew Healy

#2. The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.

Ariana Grande

#4. Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Jane Smiley

#5. For generations, Americans have expected something new and better in their lives with every passing day - something that will make life a little more fun to live and a little more enlightening to behold. Exploration accomplishes this naturally. All we need to do is wake up to this fact.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

Daniel Silva

#7. I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Jet Li

#8. Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

Malcolm Forbes

#9. Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch

#10. My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

Kate Christensen

#11. For her, their romantic interlude atop the staircase had been a glorious, magical, enlightening introduction to pleasure. For him,it had merely been Friday evening.

Anna Bennett

#12. My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.

Jiah Khan

#13. Well. This has been erotic. Enlightening. Gods, this is enlightening. Like eye-opening. Nothing else!

T.J. Klune

#14. Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

Mark Epstein

#15. The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.

Charles Ghigna

#16. There is no knowledge that is wrong. Only knowledge that is difficult, troubling, enlightening, liberating, and intoxicating.

Omar Saif Ghobash

#17. Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

Laozi

#18. In total seclusion, enlightening, I found the origin of my being.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#19. I just feel like I explain myself more, I'm trying to be more conscious about it, simply. Just enlightening my fans and letting them know to lock into me because I'm speaking real with them, more than anything.

Pusha T

#20. I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.

Alan Moore

#21. Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

Bruce Springsteen

#22. We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Fifteen-year-old Sam had seen twenty-year-old Ryan for the first time and had immediately run upstairs and jerked off. It had been a revolutionary and enlightening experience that essentially answered the question that yes, I was indeed very, very gay.

T.J. Klune

#24. [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

Candy Chang

#25. We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

Jerry Bridges

#26. If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

Paul Theroux

#27. All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .

Joseph Conrad

#28. We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Stephen Jay Gould

#29. Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#30. There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

Chapman Cohen

#32. To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

Jeffrey Lewis

#33. I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

Brad Dourif

#34. It all started in December when it grew cold, i drove in feeling icy and numb...but as i saw the moon rising above the smoke it made me feel alive & enlightening up my Soul...

PP

#35. This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

Adam Weishaupt

#36. I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.

Larry Hagman

#37. There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

Nelson Rockefeller

#38. Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

Chuck Ragan

#39. A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Bruce Davison

#40. To be disrespectful of tradition and of historical theology is to be disrespectful of the Holy Spirit who has been actively enlightening the church in every century.

John R.W. Stott

#41. Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Kurt Vonnegut

#42. It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.

Kathryn Lindskoog

#43. And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.

Pete Dexter

#44. Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention.1 Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. - THOMAS JEFFERSON

Jon Meacham

#45. Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

Marcia Whicker

#46. To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

Phil Lesh

#47. For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness. I like to call this enlightening-ment.

Jennifer Howard

#48. If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.

Bill Jay

#49. For each inclosed spirit is a star
Enlightening his own little sphere

Henry Vaughan

#50. Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Michael Eisner

#51. I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

Susan Powter

#52. FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

Beverly Donofrio

#53. It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#54. You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

Marianne Williamson

#55. Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

David Simon

#56. On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.

Adoniram Judson

#57. Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Thomas Jefferson

#58. LIFE CHANGES AHEAD? Darwin never said it was the strongest who survive; he never said it was the smartest either. He said it was the most adaptable. So, lets embrace our next life change with energy and euphoria. Lets make it positive and enlightening like never before. Carpe Diem

Lee Johnson

#59. In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Tammy Bruce

#60. You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

Jacki Weaver

#61. Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

Meles Zenawi

#62. It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Beth Henley

#63. There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.

Alexander McCall Smith

#64. The Only Good Greed Is Greed For Enlightening Experiences

Dean Cavanagh

#65. Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

Albert Camus

#66. The only thing you really get to figure out after a lifetime of study is that there's more stuff to figure out. Frustrating and enlightening at the same time.

Jasper Fforde

#67. People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.

Candy Chang

#68. Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Steve Albini

#69. Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships.

Germaine De Stael

#70. You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy.

Debasish Mridha

#71. A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.

James Patterson

#72. This is really enlightening. I didn't know life was supposed to be easy. How could I have lived all these years and not realized life was supposed to be easy? I feel really stupid now.

Amanda Usen

#73. The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening.

Kym Whitley

#74. I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage anyone.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#75. We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

Matthew Fox

#76. Okay, well, this has been enlightening and insulting, so thank you for both.

Tracy Ewens

#77. TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

Aja Naomi King

#78. Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in his clients' processes. His work is both enlightening and informative.

Arnold Mindell

#79. Mr. and Mrs. Muirhead fought continuously and as bitterly as vipers. Their arguments were baroque, stately and, although frequently extraordinary, never enlightening.

Joy Williams

#80. Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!

David L. Katz

#81. The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

Eva Mendes

#82. Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#83. Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Constance Wu

#84. Enlightening people with facts is also a form of social service.

Rohith Thatchan C

#85. The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.

Dave Davies

#86. All that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#87. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

Marianne Williamson

#88. Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

Mark Twain

#89. Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

Umar

#90. Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

Kim Hee-jin

#91. We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

#92. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#93. Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

Vivian Amis

#94. Drama entered my home last week, but I ushered it to the door and tossed it to the curb.

Barbara Brooke

#95. Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.

T. Scott McLeod

#96. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

Frederick Buechner

#97. Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

Lester B. Pearson

#98. I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

Isaac Asimov

#99. Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

Benjamin Franklin

#100. The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Dean Koontz