Quotes About Clarity

You only feel that way because the boy you love is not aware enough of his own feelings to make things clear to you or even to himself.

I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

True believers in a cause often behaved in self-defeating ways because they expected other people to see the rightness of their cause if they just stated it clearly enough. As a result, they tipped their hand in every game and couldn't understand why everyone ganged up against them.

A story is easier to follow, [...] if it begins at the beginning and not half way through.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Some things in life just become very clear and we don't need a reason for them at all: I knew at that moment what I'd have to do.

He let the pieces of the napkin flutter to the floor and said something strange about words being good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

No procuro saber las respuestas, procuro comprender las preguntas.

Una voz fuerte no puede competir con una voz clara, aunque esta sea un simple murmullo.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.