Quotes About Clarity

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at).

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing wildly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand.

In wakeful nights, as one may fancy, the wild soul of the man, tossing amid these vortices, would hail any light of a decision for them as a veritable light from Heaven; any making-up of his mind, so blessed, indispensable for him there

Order is Truth,—each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it: Order and Falsehood cannot subsist together.

The Reality had swept the Formulas away before it.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

So if you are going to look for a pearl, it is best to still the waves; it will be hard to find if you stir the water. When the water of concentration is still and clear, the pearl of mind reveals itself.

If three people are travelling and one of them is confused, they can still get where they are going. That´s because the confused one is in the minority. If two of them are confused, they´ll have a hard time and won´t get there, because confusion prevails.

The nobility of the ancients was no more than purity and serenity--what need for bushels of emblems?

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity." —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics