Enlightenment Quotes

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it" "Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all." "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity" "Dare to know" "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason There is nothing higher than reason" "The truth however ugly in itself is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it" "The Word must be heard one nation must go a new nation come luminous and firm" "The more awakened your mind becomes, the more deeply you are able to penetrate the dark shadows of your life. " "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand" "Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit" "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding" "The learned man knows that he is ignorant" "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." "The doors of wisdom are never shut" "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines" "The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue" "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark"