Thomas Paine Quotes

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

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

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

It's important to be enlightened.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

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

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.