Quotes with light

  • Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
  • If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

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  • Martin Luther King Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Louis Aragon Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Buddha On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama
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  • Albert Schweitzer Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Andrew Motion Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
    Andrew Motion
     
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  • Confucius It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Malcolm X It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ruth E. Renkel Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
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  • Bhagavad Gita Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Albert Claude Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • 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.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Malcolm X We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • A. Sidney 'Tis not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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  • Franz Kafka A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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