Quotes About Clarity

In any case, the point is not to try to get rid of thoughts, but rather to see their true nature. Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.