Enlightened Quotes

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

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.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.