Quotes of Illuminating - somelinesforyou

“ Pure religion and undefiled softens the manners by enlightening the mind, while superstition by making it blind, inspires every kind of madness. ”

- Voltaire

“ Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! ”

- Agatha Christie

“ How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. ”

- Bible

“ I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life. ”

- Jet Li

“ What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children. ”

- Unknown

“ What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children. ”

- Unknown

“ No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. ”

- John Heywood

“ If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. ”

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“ The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. ”

- Bible

“ What is very enlightening for me right now is that I sense that I'm arriving at a place of peace with my writing that I've never experienced before. ”

- David Bowie

“ I thought it was a good time to raise the idea of using fear to stifle political debate. The real teeth of journalism has been missing journalism out there. ”

- George Clooney

“ It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things. ”

- Penny Marshall

“ I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. ”

- David Bowie

“ I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter. ”

- Susan Powter

“ If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. ”

- Alan Perlis

“ Nothing is less instructive than a machine. ”

- Simone Weil

“ To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ”

- Ben Sweetland

“ Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ”

- Edward Steichen

“ I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. ”

- Iris Murdoch
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