Enlightened Quotations

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

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

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it

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

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated.

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.

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.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

The Art of Peace begins with you...

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

I have a friend who still believes if Osho had never left India, we would all have been enlightened by now. I won't comment on this.

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."

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

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

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

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

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

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

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.