Quotes About Clarity

The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable.

buzz in his head was wonderfully liberating,

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Words know that there is always the right word and no other word will do.

The secret of success isn't knowing what you want, it is knowing what you don't want.

Any speculation or revelation is not exactly an affirmation or denial of a mistake. Facts are not mistakes.

Do not just jump into the water when you cannot clearly see everything beneath the surface. Eyes are easily deceived what instinct can only sense.

Lighting a candle has a purpose. Know your purpose.

Any question will be sensible when you are driving at the right course.

Be firm in every word you say. There is no remorse in retraction.

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

Until then, most of my poems had been devotedly incomprehensible. Now they were becoming comprehensible, a transformation that would have allowed me to detect their sentimentality if they had not been so true to my feelings, which were sentimental.

Tacitus, "qui abrégeoit tout parce qu'il voyoit tout." ("He abridged everything because he saw everything." Perfect.)

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

The less comprehensible he was, the more responsible he was held to be. Here was no lightweight.

To put it briefly, the secret is to put it briefly. But you always think that's what you're doing, until experience teaches you that you aren't being brief enough.

THE HUSK AND CORE OF MASCULINITY Masculinity has a core of clarity, which does not act from anger or greed or sensuality, and a husk, which does. The virile center that listens within takes pleasure in obeying that truth. Nobility of spirit, the true spontaneous energy of your life, comes as you abandon other motives and move only when you feel the majesty that commands and is the delight of the self. Remember Ayaz crushing the king's pearl!

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more directly, much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Desde hace algún tiempo, mis ojos siempre dan la impresión de saber algo que yo no sé.

A qui vit aux champs et se sert de ses yeux, tout devient miraculeux et simple. To those who dwell in the fields and use their eyes, everything becomes miraculous and simple

The word "pure" has never revealed an intelligible meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it – in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

I FIND THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FAIL TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES.

Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...