Victor Cousin Quotes

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

Light is the symbol of truth.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Light itself is a revelation.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

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

Truths kindle light for truths.

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

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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

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

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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

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

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

I would like to enlighten people.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.