Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Quotes

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Light is the symbol of truth.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Light itself is a revelation.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.