Arnold Bennett Quotes

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

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

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

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.

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

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

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.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Truths kindle light for truths.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.