Quotes About Clarity

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

What you theoretically know, vividly realize.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.