Top 251 Illuminate Quotes & Sayings

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.

I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.

To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

Illuminate the opposition.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.

I have two little black boys. And a film like 'Do the Right Thing' can help illuminate the times for them with great storytelling.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.

Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.

When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you.

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does.

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

The Moon Will Illuminate My Room And Soon Im Consumed By My Doom

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don't need to be on the side of the party to do that.