#lighten

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

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I would like to enlighten people. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

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