A Quote by Francis Bacon

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

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Brightly Darkness Light Must Order Present Shine

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

Danny DeVito

We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.

Naoko Takeuchi

Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

Albert Einstein

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Tenzin Palmo

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not see the world as dark, see it as light. When you find darkness bring the light into it. The way to remove darkness is to shine light on it.

Sadie Robertson

What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.

Jeffrey R. Holland

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Shakti Gawain

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.

Wes Fesler

In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.

Arundhati Roy

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Edna O'Brien

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

Sean Faircloth

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

Carl Jung

Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.