Quotes About Clarity

I'm short not blind

More details, more devils.

How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?

If only you could take that final step, you'd see farther than ll the rest. You'd be alone with nothing but blue sky above you.

when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

They always seemed to know everything, but now there is only me, and it seems I know nothing, not even my duty. How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?" - Catelyn

El corazón miente y la mente engaña, pero los ojos ven. Mira con los ojos. Escucha con los oídos. Saborea con la boca. Huele con la nariz. Siente con la piel. Y no pienses hasta después, y así sabrás la verdad. —Syrio Forel

I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.

Weigh every word before you speak it.

A turnip would have grasped it quicker.

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

La falsa luz sólo nos lleva a adentrarnos más en la oscuridad.

I did not know." "You should have.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." ("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.") [Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Sanity is madness put to good uses.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.