Light Quotes

Light is the symbol of truth.

James Russell Lowell

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Terry Pratchett

We cannot define these things without obscuring them, while we speak of them with all assurance....our doubts cannot take away all the clearness, nor our own natural lights chase away all the darkness.

Blaise Pascal

... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.

Plato

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Leo Tolstoy

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Thomas Carlyle

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

Rodney Dangerfield

Listen: The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said

Kurt Vonnegut

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Blaise Pascal

A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.

Paulo Coelho

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

Leo Tolstoy

O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.

English Proverb

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The progress that's made... in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say oh let's have less heat and more light, fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.

Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

If the world is to be understood, if we are to avoid such logical paradoxes when traveling at high speeds, there are some rules, commandments of Nature, that must be obeyed. Einstein codified these rules in the special theory of relativity. Light (reflected or emitted) from an object travels at the same velocity whether the object is moving or stationary: Thou shalt not add thy speed to the speed of light. Also, no material object may move faster than light: Thou shalt not travel at or beyond the speed of light. Nothing in physics prevents you from traveling as close to the speed of light as you like; 99.9 percent of the speed of light would be just fine. But no matter how hard you try, you can never gain that last decimal point. For the world to be logically consistent there must be a cosmic speed limit. Otherwise, you could get to any speed you wanted by adding velocities on a moving platform.

Carl Sagan