Diogenes
Philosopher
"He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human.""
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Lamps
142 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."
Joseph Joubert
Essayist, Moralist
"The evening of life brings with it its lamps."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves."
Aristotle Onassis
Shipping magnate
"Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive."
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"Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth."
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"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
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"I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear."
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"The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean."
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"Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life."
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"Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge."
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"Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?"
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"Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep."
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"I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room."
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"Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness."
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"We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day."
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"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves."
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"Our hearts are lamps for ever burning."
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"Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning."
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"The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all."
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"A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood."
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"In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it."
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"Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared."
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"Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn."
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"Be a lamp unto yourself."
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