Quotes About Clarity

I have not forgotten those days, I have only forgotten how simply they seemed to occur …

The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

There comes a time when you realize everything is a dream. And only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

To understand everything is to love nothing

Third: Act first, explain later. Stamp this axiom on your writer's brain. Or put it on a note and tape it where you can see it. This advice never fails.

That's what's this is.

If your mind is dirty you can run 10,000 miles, but where have you gotten? If you go for a 1-mile run and you're passionately engaged with the world, who cares about the other 9,999?

It is by love alone that we understand anything

A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.

Fear cannot be where knowledge is

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System--the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse.

People who do not understand pigeons?and pigeons can be understood only when you understand that there is nothing to understand about them?should not go around describing pigeons or the effect of pigeons.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

Con una visión perfecta uno se ve inextricablemente atrapado en el mundo cotidiano, prisionero de la realidad (...) Para la persona con ojos de halcón, la vida no posee ninguno de aquellos aspectos suaves que para mí se confunde con la fantasía

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

Surely the desired end product of high school U.S. history courses is graduates who can think clearly, distinguish evidence from opinion, and separate truth from what comedian Stephen Colbert famously called "truthiness.

The Truth can set us free.

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. -Josh Billings

Lack of knowledge is darker than night. ~ African Proverb

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Our Mind need relax to reach goals.