Shedding Light Quotes

• Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Vices, World

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• Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Light, Sometimes, Corruption

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• There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Differences, Romance

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Men, Long

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• Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Motivational, Real

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• There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

  Martin Gardner

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  "Exclusive Interview with Martin Gardner". Interview with Bernard Sussman, "Southwind" (Miami-Dade Junior College), Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 1968.

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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Sympathy, Wedding Anniversary

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.

  Vaclav Havel

  Meaningful, Strong, Light

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• Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Stories, Half, Tabloids

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• The single most important thing you can do to get elected is to have street money!

  Ed Rendell

  Important, Streets, Can Do

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• The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

  Sherry Lansing

  Being Yourself, Business, Important

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• I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Light, Mind

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.148, Random House

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• I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

  Liya Kebede

  Thinking, Light, Issues

  "More Than a Pretty Face: Liya Kebede". Interview with Julia Savacool, www.marieclaire.com. May 14, 2007.

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• All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.

  Luther Burbank

  Mother, Nature, Light

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• George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.

  Euvin Naidoo

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ignorance

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