Light Quotes - page 8

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. (Herman Melville)
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. View quote
Alan Cohen
To love beauty is to see light. View quote
Victor Hugo
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. View quote
Spike Milligan
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending” analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. View quote
Max Müller
Times glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. View quote
William Shakespeare
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. View quote
William Shakespeare
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. View quote
Meister Eckhart
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. View quote
Walter Scott
O woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. View quote
Walter Scott
He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. View quote
John Milton
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. View quote
Ian Fleming
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. View quote
Jean Cocteau
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thought the sun is gone, I have a light. View quote
Kurt Cobain
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. View quote
Max Planck