Famous Quotes
for Enlightenment
Famous Quotes from great political and spiritual leaders of the past:
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
- All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
- All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
- A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
- All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they
have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many
parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
More Famous Quotes
- A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow
confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all
humanity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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- All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
- Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
- I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for
money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I
willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa
- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
- Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
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- All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is
love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be
part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
- If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai Lama
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- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks
or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts
with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never
leaves him.
Lord Buddha
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Lord Buddha
- In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Lord Buddha
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