Light Quotes - Page 8

• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Education, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International

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• ...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.

  Edward Weston

  Lying, Eye, Waiting

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

  George Sand

  Art, Vocation, Humans

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• Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  William Shakespeare (1862). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.52

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• My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rama, Endless, Dependent

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• I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

  Isaac Newton

  Waiting, Inquiry, Littles

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• A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Men

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• I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

  Knut Hamsun

  Rocks

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• I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.

  Will Barnet

  Twilight, Dark, Want

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• Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

  John Ruskin

  Journey, Hiking, Darkness

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• In the light of one choice, we will sing with one voice.

  Tarkan

  Voice, Choices

  Song: Come Closer, Album: Come Closer, 2006

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Romeo And Juliet Love

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Humor

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• 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 up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Baptist Teacher for Sunday-school Workers : Vol. 36", (p. 483), August 1905.

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• Many hands make light work.

  John Heywood

  Change, Teamwork, Hands

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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• There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

  Margaret Smith

  Positive, Sassy, Tunnels

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• Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Artist, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

  Jewel

  Faith, Darkness, Doe

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Character, Color, Form

  Pierre Bonnard, Jörg Zutter, Gloria Lynn Groom, National Gallery of Australia (2003). “Pierre Bonnard: observing nature”, Natl Gallery of Australia

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• So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Forever, Path

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1289, Delphi Classics

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• The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

  Isaac Newton

  Change, Science, Body

  'Opticks' (1730 ed.) bk. 3, pt. 1, qu. 30

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• This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

  Saigyō

  Moon, Tree, Conversation

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• Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light!

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Land, Essence, Oneness

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• To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

  Jan Morris

  Soul, Shade, Taste

  Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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