Quotes About Clarity

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

Everyone speaks of it, few know it.

You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

He that jokes confesses.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.