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Quotes About Clarity

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
~ Anatole France
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
~ William James
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
~ Atisa
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
~ Lin Yutang
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
To understand is to perceive patterns.
~ Isaiah Berlin
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
~ Roger Bacon
To generalize is to be an idiot.
~ William Blake
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
~ James Gleick
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.
~ Jay Abraham
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
~ William Stafford
To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
~ Elizabeth Towne
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
~ Socrates
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
~ Thomas Merton
The important things are always simple.
~ Albert Einstein
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.
~ Charles Stanley
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
~ Clarence Darrow
When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
~ William Blake
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
~ Zhuangzi
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
~ Bodhidharma