Illuminating Power Quotes

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Knowledge … is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Light is something that can really change your perception of space.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.