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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant
Enlightenment Quotes
Spiritual Enlightenment is the first step to changing your path of destiny. It means investing energy in learning and education. Here, we provide enlightenment quotes to help you tune in to the process of higher education.
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"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."
-French Proverb
"Men heap together the mistakes
of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny."
-John Oliver Hobbes
"Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryan
"I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives,
that determine our destiny."
-Anthony Robbins
"To the willing, destiny guides them;
to the unwilling, destiny drags them”
-Seneca
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"Experience is not what happens to you.
It is what you do with what happens to you."
- Aldous Huxley
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein
"Education is not the answer to the question.
Education is the means to the answer to all questions."
-William Allin
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
and the lesson afterward."
-Vernon Law
"The main part of education is not the acquisition of facts,
but learning how to make facts live."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The only person who is educated
is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
-Carl Rogers
"Education is being able to differentiate between
what you know and what you don't."
-Anatole France
"Knowledge opens a door, but you must enter by yourself."
-Chinese Proverb
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
-Yogi Berra
Spiritual Enlightenment Quotes
Free Spiritual Guidance
by Jordan Canon, Spiritual Advisor
"Focus 90% of your time on solutions
and only 10% of your time on problems."
-Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation
but would like it to keep in touch."
-Robert Orben
"We cannot hold a torch to light another person’s path without brightening our own."
-Ben Sweetland. Submitted by Lori, New York
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
-Lao Tzu
Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful,
you must have it within you or you will find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are aware of you are in control of;
what you are not aware of is in control of you.
- Anthony de Mello
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt within the heart.
- Helen Keller
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
– Galileo Galilei
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
– Confucius
Problems cannot be solved at the same level that created them.
– Albert Einstein
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
– Benjamin Franklin
The import thing is this: to be able at any moment
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Man’s mind, once stretch by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-Lao-Tze
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement
that something else is more important than fear.
-Ambrose Redmoon
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants;
enlightenment the salvation of the free.
-Bill Richardson
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
-Ernest Holmes
19. You are today where your thoughts have brought you;
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-James Allen
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family,
to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.
If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment,
and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
-Buddha
