Top Enlightened Quotes
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Johann Most
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
Italo Calvino
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Charles Sumner
Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
Jennifer Beals
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton 
63% of people like this quote
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
Johann Most 
56% of people like this quote
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
Italo Calvino 
56% of people like this quote
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Charles Sumner 
56% of people like this quote
Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
Jennifer Beals 
56% of people like this quote
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu 
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
Francis Wright 
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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.
Robert Dale Owen 
54% of people like this quote
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
Johann Heinrich Lambert 
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