Quotes About Clarity

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove. It's a cold clammy reality that she can't do a damn thing about.

Reader, if you don't know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment in reading this account.

You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them

One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you are talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault.

Yur heaved a sigh, then continued in a more moderate tone: "Never mind. I see it now. It's some kind of Purpose thing. Above my pay grade. You should have just told me." He drew himself up and saluted. "What are my orders, sir?

but if you have studied that, everything since will seem like repetition and all the particulars as to how the Sæcular Power of my day was organized will remind you of more or less ancient forerunners, but with less majesty and clarity since the ancients were all doing it for the first time and believed they were on to something.

For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. —HOBBES, Leviathan

And it must be understood that the adjective "white" here means a true, blinding salt-white, and not the dirty beige that passes for white in poorly illuminated textile markets.

All fine and simple in principle. The details very complicated, of course.

But it's easy to find the whole environment a little creepy, because something is missing: the translation of all its content into clear explicit written words, the attribution of the ideas to specific people.

Clarity of mind (Cm) is affected by any number of factors, but by far the most important is horniness, which might be designated by ?, for obvious anatomical reasons that Waterhouse finds amusing at this stage of his emotional development.

Our speech interposes itself between apprehension and truth like a dusty pane or warped mirror.

When I think of all the things I've worried about and been afraid of in my life—and now it's plain that I've been scared of the wrong things.

In layperson's terms: if it has to be dunked in liquid helium to work, I don't understand it. If it's in a rack with fans blowing on it, that's a different story.

Leibniz is proposing a strange inversion of what we normally mean when we describe a man as distinguished, or unique. Normally when we say these things, we mean that the man himself stands out from a crowd in some way. But Leibniz is saying that such a man's uniqueness is rooted in his ability to perceive the rest of the universe with unusual clarity—to distinguish one thing from another more effectively than ordinary souls." Roger

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance." Condense fact from the vapor of nuance. Hiro has never forgotten the sound of her speaking those words, the feeling that came over him as he realized for the first time how smart Juanita was.

Condense fact from the vapor of nuance.