Mark Akenside Quotes

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

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

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

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

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

The mind once enlightened cannot again become 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.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.