Quotes About Clarity

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man upon his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region…. Meditation and water are wedded forever.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most.

No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!

Como siempre, confunde duda con profundidad, vacilación con análisis.

Imagine the relief of finding out that one is not the one one thought one was

It took me a while to realize the hum was only inside my head Is a waveless noise still a sound?

Some people are exceptionally clear eyed. To them, nothing is ever too complex or mysterious. Answers invisible to most are in plain sight to these enlightened few. Their approach to the world is elementary and, without fail, right. They see through false complications and find the simple truths of life. Mildred was blessed with this lucidity.

an abundance of facts is not necessarily an abundance of knowledge.

Ich wusste nicht, wie das Licht verschwindet, obwohl ich eine ganze Stunde hinsah. Er sagte, es gäbe Sachen, die eben nicht in die Augen gehen.

Para hablar no tengo la cabeza despejada, si no, le preguntaría qué hay que ver en mí.

Cuando callamos, resultamos desagradables ... cuando hablamos, quedamos en ridículo.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put him on his guard.

Sometimes it is years before we can see who are the heroes in an affair and who are the victims.

You know what you meant. I only know what you said.