Enlightenment Quotes - page 9

The meaning of life of a humankind is the integrity of its unity, enlightenment, and long-term stability for the sake of everyone's happiness. (Zafar Mirzo)
The enlightenment of scientific and rational knowledge is skills expressing complex knowledge in an accessible and interesting way. View quote
Zafar Mirzo
Enlightenment, designed to emancipate people from the power of ignorance and prejudice, will be ineffective and useless to the non-use of scientific achievements. View quote
Zafar Mirzo
Purposeful life needs an axis or hinge to which it is firmly fixed and yet around which it can freely revolve. As I see it, this axis or hinge has been, in my own case, strongly enough, not the love of science, not even the love of Nature but a certain abstract idealism or belief in the value of the human spirit and the virtue of human endeavour and achievement. The nearest point to which I can trace this source of idealism in my recollection of reading Edwin Arnold's great book, The Light of Asia. I remember being powerfully moved by the story of Siddhartah's great renunciation, of his search for truth and of his final enlightenment. View quote
C. V. Raman
Mindfulness should guide all your actions and your spiritual endeavors. Whatever you do, always apply three essential points: undertake the action with the intention of doing so for the good of all beings; execute it with perfect concentration, free of attachment to concepts of subject, object, and action; and, finally, dedicate the merit you have created to the enlightenment of all beings. View quote
Dilgo Khyentse
It is important to become more and more clearly convinced that the only thing worth achieving is supreme enlightenment. View quote
Dilgo Khyentse
This museum is like a ghost train-at every stage you find a surprise. Intuition prepares you for enlightenment, not audio-visual lectures. There's less to read, more to fee. View quote
Philippe Starck
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment. View quote
Vera Farmiga
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. View quote
Charlotte Joko Beck
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. View quote
Atifete Jahjaga
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil. (Charles Jencks)
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment. View quote
Jamie Campbell Bower
As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto. View quote
Karen Finerman
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. View quote
Marisha Pessl
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference. View quote
Nancy Pearcey
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. View quote
Polly Toynbee
Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment. View quote
Pearl Cleage
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s. View quote
Robert Darnton
I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. View quote
Tiger Woods
Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. View quote
Dan Millman
Becoming aware, awakening, enlightenment, is possible right here and now, for everyone. From moment to moment, and yet only here and now, never sometimes, somewhere. Reality, God, is present here and now. The kingdom of heaven, blessedness, moksha, nirvana waits here and now. Outwardly nothing may happen, and yet a purely inner process can open up a new world, a new life, a new reality. - New? - Yes, really new, and yet as all those who have ever experienced it assert, at that moment we know that we have always been at home in that world, although we only now become aware of it. (Yrjö Kallinen)
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place. View quote
Francis Crick
The more I ponder God's way, the more I believe He changes a person, or molds a person through enlightenment. He changes a person's mind. View quote
Don Miller (author)
We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple We pray because we cannot help praying. View quote
William James
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. View quote
Umberto Eco