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Quotes About Clarity

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.
~ Robert Henri
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
~ Augustus Hare
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
~ Guillermo del Toro
A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
~ Evan Esar
The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
~ Benjamin Hoff
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
~ Heraclitus
To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
~ Confucius
It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
~ Amy Poehler
a problem well put is half solved.
~ John Dewey
When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
~ Laurence Sterne
To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.
~ Gautama Buddha
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
~ Socrates
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
~ Sri Aurobindo
But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
~ Sheldon Vanauken
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.
~ Byron Katie
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
~ Mortimer Adler
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
~ Helen Keller
Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.
~ Herbert Hoover
Nature and wisdom always say the same.
~ Juvenal