Quotes About Clarity

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.