Quotes About Clarity

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through and overcome.

If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear? Any clearer, says Cam, and you'd be invisible.

The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.

Even though Connor can't see Hayden's face, he can hear the truth of it in his voice. There was no hint of evasion in Hayden's words. This was raw-honesty, void of Hayden's usual flip attitude. It was perhaps the first truly honest thing Connor had ever heard him say. Yes, it is an answer, Connor says. Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a Heartland War.

How strange to actually have to see the path of your journey in order to make it.

That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind Yes, she's illegally blind

Compound eyes confound lies.

Are you a dim bulb or high-wattage?

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Noncommittal is rampant among the committed.

We'd see, we'd hear, we'd feel so deeply that we might never resurface. So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

I know all that is possible to know, and it is increasingly unbearable. Because I know next to nothing

Rightmindness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than a mind that's right.

Everything feels right with the world, and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.

Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts.

Rightmindedness is overrated," Goddard said. "I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.

Right mindedness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.

What person in their right mind would want to feel that kind of pain?" "Rightmindedness is overrated," Goddard said. "I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.'

We are so limited. As a species. As individuals. Not only can't we see the future, we can't even see the present for what it is. We are too clouded by the things we want and the things we fear. But worse than any other blindness is that we can't see the consequences of our actions.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But it isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.