Quotes About Clarity

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

A man without vision is a man without God.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Now I understand," said the last man.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.