Quotes About Clarity

You like simple." "Doesn't everybody?" "Some people thrive on complexity, Craig.

I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for Preschool.

we shouldn't reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

The underlying cause of most unfulfilled lives is that we are simply too close to ourselves to see clearly enough to get out of our own way.

I used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the dark again.

La inteligencia verdadera se da cuando la mente y el corazón se conectan. Entonces es cuando ves la verdad de una forma tan nítida e inequívoca que no tienes ni que pensar en ella.

The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.

This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind.

me as though I might need another analogy, which I didn't

I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.

willful ignorance.

but if you don't know where you're going or why, you're either a government employee or you're aimless.

do. As a wise man (me) once said, "The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Oddly enough, I didn't recall feeling that way the week before. I wasn't certain how this revelation came about, but revelations are like that; they just smack you across the face one day, and you know you've arrived at the truth without even knowing you were looking for it. What you do about it is another matter. I

the past was so strong, it obscured the present.

It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

the rule is, If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

Tom Walsh doesn't exactly talk down to people, but there's a thin line between him stating the obvious and him thinking he's giving you new information.

Nietzsche's famous dictum—the most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do

Eu sou o cínico da família. E os cínicos enxergam o óbvio.

Everybody talks to me about 'P.M.s,'" complained Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn to Inspector Fox on Monday afternoon, "and I never know whether they mean post-mortem or Prime Minister. Really, it's very difficult when you happen to be involved with both.