Light Quotes

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."
-Aaron Rosenberg

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine."
-Oprah Winfrey

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
-Arlo Guthrie

"We burn daylight."
-William Shakespeare

"What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness."
-M. C. Escher

"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
-James Thurber

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
-Ellen DeGeneres

"More light! Give me more light!"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead."
-Bob Marley

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato

"A light heart lives long."
-Irish Proverb

"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."
-Carl Jung

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
-Carl Jung

"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."
-Pythagoras

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."
-Thomas Henry Huxley

"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
-Carl Sagan

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
-Rene Descartes

"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"
-Epictetus

"Put out the light."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
-Charles Darwin

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat."
-Woodrow Wilson

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
-Christopher Columbus

"Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

"I'd see him on downtown street corners, always with a camera. He'd be testing the light."
-Evelyn Cunningham

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
-Chinese Proverb