Quotes About Clarity

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.