“ 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- Copy
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“ In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks. ”
- Scott Adams- Copy
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“ To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. ”
- Charles Eames- Copy
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“ Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was. ”
- Placido Domingo- Copy
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“ That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more. ”
- Thierry Henry- Copy
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“ Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. ”
- James Brown- Copy
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“ He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened. ”
- Lao tzu- Copy
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“ Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair. ”
- Katherine Tait- Copy
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“ Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ”
- William Howard Taft- Copy
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“ The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. ”
- Alan Redpath- Copy
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“ The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ”
- Charles Sumner- Copy
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“ I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. ”
- Nelson Rockefeller- Copy
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“ When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev… ”
- Grant Wood- Copy
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“ What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. ”
- Ken Wilber- Copy
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“ It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Would that this institution-or some institution-could become the University of Utopia. What will it be like? It will be the most enlightened institution of higher learning in the world today. Its only purpose is to educate. What a radically novel idea for an institution of higher learning! ”
- Charles McCurdy Jr.- Copy
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“ We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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