Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Bryant H. McGill

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

Andrew Lang

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

Ludwig von Mises

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Orson Scott Card

Madness, and then illumination.

David Ogilvy

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination

David Ogilvy

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Eugene Delacroix

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

George H. W. Bush

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

Harry S Truman

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

H. G. Wells

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

Idries Shah

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

Mason Cooley

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

John Piper

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

John Updike

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Johnny Vegas

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

Joni Mitchell

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

James Mark Baldwin

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

Henri Poincare

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

Heather O'Neill

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Jimmy Carter

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

Simon Schama

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

Rabindranath Tagore

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Lionel Tiger

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

Susan Sontag

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

Vin Scully

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Rene Descartes

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

Robert Anton Wilson

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Joseph Campbell

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.