Quotes About Clarity

La persuasión exigía utilizar palabras convincentes: de los que saben pero no tienen «el poder para expresarlo claramente», bien se puede decir que no saben nada.

We seek a metaphor for holy words that will return them to us once again as an ayfz hayim, a tree of life (Prov. 3:18). One that yields heightened self-awareness and God's Word. One that permits sustained intellectual inquiry and Scripture's holiness. One that preserves clarity, but not at the expense of mystery. One whose playfulness does not dilute piety. One whose public objectivity tolerates personal intimacy. In the spiritual code words of our generation: a holy text.

If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

If you can see a thing whole ... it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need a distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

I don't have to wonder where he he, what he's doing, or who. I don't have to worry about all the ways he'll scar my son. I don't have to watch myself give in again and again, audience to my own relentless weakness. I thought if he were gone I wouldn't hate myself so much, which isn't true, as it turns out, but still his absence is as close as I can get to freedom. There's a certain clearheadedness now, there's a kind of lonely clarity--

Jony, too, would become a master of the approach, agreeing with Jobs's mantra: 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Focus means saying no." Focus is also having the confidence to say no when everyone else is saying yes.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal, and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing

My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.