73 Enlightened Quotes for You to Enjoy

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. Alexis de Tocqueville

Patriotism Nation Other Faults Lies Ability Rather More Repair Greatness Than America Any Being Her Enlightened

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra

Love Truth Leadership Spiritual Experience Creativity Compassion Values Spirituality Goodness Beauty Ideology Awareness Focused Kind Religious Intuition Insight Some Attention Like Also Understand Dogma Domain Where Enlightened

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. Robert E. Lee

Age Political Will Evil Country Few Believe Moral Disadvantages Institution Any Acknowledge Useless Enlightened Slavery

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. Buddha

Wisdom Time World Will Men Leader First Master Universe Earth Angels Shall Arise Buddha Mortals Knowing Supremely Another Am Due Came Nor Conduct Endowed Holy Who Incomparable Enlightened Last

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men. H. P. Lovecraft

Freedom Cats Pride Men Beauty Cynical Coldness Philosophic Independent Unbroken Civilised Poetic Mentally Developed Individuality Qualities Self-Sufficiency Wonder Sensitive Pagan Dispassionate Reserved Dainty Enlightened

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao Tzu

Wise Others He Himself Knows Who Enlightened

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. Anthony Kennedy

Truth Lie Simple Free Free Society Society Response Rational Simple Truth Remedy True Course False Ordinary Uninformed Enlightened Speech

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. Henry David Thoreau

Will Free Power Own State Independent Recognize Higher Individual Never Until Him Accordingly Authority Which Really Derived Enlightened Treats

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. Marianne Williamson

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery. Sam Harris

People Values Argument Tolerance Other Liberal Recognise Willingness See Point Misery Points Allow Delude Openness Self-Doubt Very Human Where Hold Them Us View Who Right Enlightened

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson

People Control Think Society Enough Take Remedy Know Safe Powers Exercise Ultimate Discretion Inform Them Themselves Wholesome Enlightened

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. Benjamin Franklin

Man Respect People Political Every Other Our Thoroughly Circumstances Easy More Perhaps Reads His Than Improvement Any Heaven Leisure Information Conversations Acquiring Us Interests Among Enlightened Every Man

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Knowledge Ignorance Rocks Person Breaks Hard Enlightened

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. Sun Tzu

Good Ruler General Caution Full Enlightened

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. Alice Walker

Become Ways Sexuality Leads Because Self-Knowledge Us Actually Enlightened

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth Man Truth Is Waters Shallow Dirty Does Wade Dislike Enlightened

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. Sun Tzu

Great Wise Army Intelligence Achieve Will Ruler General Only Purposes Results Great Results Highest Spying Use Who Thereby Enlightened

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle. Amor Towles

Struggle World Cake Behavior Before Manners Sweet Think Way Finishes Nobility Outward Like Contemporary Inward Attractive Contemporary World Politeness Surface Off Very Different Them Century Viewed Expression Different Way Thinkers Enlightened

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. Charles Eames

Class Matter Design Address Greatest Does Greatest Number Itself Privileged Social Social Class Specialist Whom Enlightened Number Need

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation. Giordano Bruno

A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail. Han Fei

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens. Hiram Rhodes Revels

Property Valuable Wish Encouragement Own Citizens See My Own True Becoming Am Intelligent Done Race Them Acquiring Useful Assist Enlightened

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Keith Haring

Me Poetry Fallen Been Up Swallowed Enlightened

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. Neil deGrasse Tyson

People Challenge Someone Remain Throughout Take No-One Always Educator Dumb Questions End Up Curiosity Curious Done Where Place Clueless Land Ask Who Lives Enlightened

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