Enlightened Quotations

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

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

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

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

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.