19 Illumination Quotes for You to Enjoy

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. August Wilson

Work Forgiveness Yourself Dark Cause Will Willingness Angels Wrestle Sing Parts Demons Banish Confront Them Your Illumination

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams

Design Settlement Consider Earth Emancipation Scene Part Over Opening Always Reverence Providence Wonder America Grand Mankind Ignorant Illumination Slavish

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anais Nin

Truth Few Fragment Complete Scale Small Small Scale Instant Developments Mosaic Like Most Very Laborious Human Human Beings Staggering Them Acquire Successive Who Beings Illumination Receive

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Bill Bryson

Good World Light Single Before Dim Hundredth Light Bulb How Bulb Provides Forget Candle Just Barely Painfully Electricity Illumination

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

Great Clouds Will Understanding Sun Out Object Superstition Attaining Which Held Prejudice Means Reason Illumination Enlightening Association

The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect. Annie Besant

Knowledge Heart Wish Christianity Broadcast Out Resulted Priceless Share True Generous True Knowledge Without None Spread Intellect Discretion Precious Truths Often Form Teachings Zeal Illumination Shut Presented

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. Adam Weishaupt

Fruit Will Morality Perform Illumination

Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes. C. V. Raman

Decision Brilliant Aid Took February Mercury Towards Obtained End Commercially Tubes Available Sealed Using Illumination

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices. Chris Meledandri

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. David Ogilvy

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. Harold Brodkey

You Reality Sometimes Word Poet Looking Drunk See Writer Like Read Go Just Fiction Fiction Writer Sober Interesting Illumination

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. Irvin D. Yalom

Work Love Good Love Is Darkness Envy Too Seeks Inspection Mystery Crumble Like Perhaps Because Enchantment Patients Romantic Sustained Romantic Love Crave Psychotherapy While Fights Therapist Who Illumination Incompatible Fundamentally

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. Lorraine Hansberry

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. Mary Antin

Morning People Father Carry Delighted Along Until Said Did Moved Burned Procession Little Lamps Many Illumination Streets Need

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect. Poe Ballantine

Crime Studied True Most Praying Effect Illumination

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination. Rebecca De Mornay

You Healing Will Think Find Wounds See Bleeding Because Get Stop Form Them Acting Illumination Ever

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination. Robert Gottlieb

Final Consolation Scott Anyone Story Illumination

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. Roland Allen

Spiritual Men Met Apprehension Cried Those Aloud Were Intellectual Moved Them Much Apostles Whom Illumination Need

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