Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

Education is freedom.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

The very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge.

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.