Quotes About Clarity

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. Besides, it took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen.

I always tell travel writing students to use these early hours to explore, because one's surroundings—the colorful drinks, the melodic sirens, the sweet-and-foul smells—will not be as clear or as sharp in a few days. At the start, everything stands out as if in high definition, especially, strangely, if you're groggy from jet lag or insomnia.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

in the true order everything is seen from within.

Children can't respond properly to warnings if they don't hear them clearly in the first place. Finally,

The best mirror is not that which is most gilded, but that which shows the truest face.

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

Yes. I declare—easy as kittens.

never knew who to send a letter to with the Thornton Wilder stamp.

Thornton Wilder

Life affords no second chances," he thought. "Is this what growing older is—seeing always more clearly the things we failed to see?

It was not necessary to explain that nothing escaped the eyes of Coaltown except the truth.)

Live people don't understand, do they?

de El Kybalión también, que afirma que «los labios de la Sabiduría permanecen cerrados, excepto para el oído capaz de comprender».

Os lábios da Sabedoria estão fechados, exceto aos ouvidos do Entendimento.

Conservai sempre a vossa mente nas estrelas, mas deixai os vossos olhos verem os vossos passos para não cairdes na lama, por causa da vossa contemplação de cima. Lembrai-vos do paradoxo divino, que ao mesmo tempo que o Universo não existe, ele existe. Lembrai-vos sempre dos dois Pólos da Verdade: o Absoluto e o Relativo. Tomai cuidado com as Meias-Verdades.

The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding"—The Kybalion.

The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.

It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.