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Quotes About Clarity

The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.
~ Author Unknown
Fully understanding spoils the story — the best are always translucent.
~ Terri Guillemets
Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.
~ Terri Guillemets
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
~ Japanese Proverb
Tea elevates our minds so that we can see our problems from a distance — through the fine mists of contemplation.
~ Terri Guillemets
I know everyone's voice from everyone else's in a way that's almost impossible to describe. There's a weird clarity to it — like each voice is a ribbon, stretched out, glittering, unique in its color, depth, variety. I hear them like hearing is seeing. Trey has a purple voice, low and dark and deep...
~ Rachel DeWoskin, Blind, 2014
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
~ James Allen (1864–1912)
Life is so much clearer under the stars than under a roof.
~ Terri Guillemets
You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.
~ Internet meme, c. 2012
Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.
~ Author Unknown
In violence we forget who we are, just as we forget who we are when engaged in sheer perception.
~ Mary McCarthy
...wisdom comes by disillusion...
~ George Santayana, 1905
I've only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.
~ Terri Guillemets, "Mist," 2002
Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.
~ Terri Guillemets
You can never worry your way to enlightenment.
~ Terri Guillemets
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.
~ Mark Twain
As to the Adjective: When in doubt, strike it out.
~ Mark Twain
Faith is like radar which sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
~ Aaron Levenstein, unverified
We all have fog on our path at times — but clarity comes from within.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes we don't look up unless we have a reason to. And then it all becomes clear.
~ Terri Guillemets
There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth.
~ Author Unknown
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.
~ Peter Lynch