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Quotes About Clarity

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
~ Confucius
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?
~ Rumi
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
~ Plato
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
~ Oswald Spengler
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!
~ Breaker Morant
Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.
~ Layne Beachley
Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?
~ Dee Hock
How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The middle path is the way to wisdom
~ Rumi
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.
~ Rumi
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
~ Gautama Buddha
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
~ Socrates
The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia
~ Leonardo Sciascia
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
~ Socrates