Quotes about light

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

— Matthew Arnold

The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

— Bible

It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.

— M. R. Dehaan

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

— Desiderius Erasmus

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

— Arlo Guthrie

Moonlight is sculpture.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

— Carl Jung

Light is the symbol of truth.

— James Russell Lowell

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

— Dwight L. Moody

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

— Sir Isaac Newton

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

— James Thurber

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

— R. Turnbull

Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.

— William Wordsworth

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Earth is the source of light.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.

— Jeffrey Fry

Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

— Buddha

No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

— Buddha