Quotes About Clarity

Il faut un double soleil pour éclairer le fond de la bêtise humaine.

When it is dark, the objects and I will come out of limbo

This is what I have to avoid, I must not put in strangeness where there is none.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.

Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

The bottom line remains the same: you're either awake or you're not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.

In writing, authors use modes to make meaning and clarity.

Name names and your writing will stick with readers.

The difficult part of knowledge is not stating a fact, but representing that fact in a useful way.

we needed to understand what "understanding

incorrect assumptions keep us from seeing the correct answer.

History shows that the best solutions to scientific problems are simple and elegant.

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Have you ever noticed that every now and then you'll overhear an amazingly clear declarative sentence when you're out in public, spoken with such force and purpose that you absolutely yearn to know what it means, because it is just so forceful and crystalline? And you want to follow along behind whoever just spoke, even though you don;t know them, just to find out what that sentence means and how it would affect the lives of the people involved?

As Deborah had so astutely pointed out, I was engaged and still didn't get it.

Oh," I said, and my eyes pop open to the fluorescent light of Deborah's office, and no matter how hard I try to push it away and find a way not to believe it, the things I saw do not change. Even in the harsh and ugly light of the office the picture is the same, and even worse, I now see Deb and Jackie staring at me uncertainly, as if they had been watching me urinate on a busy street. "Oh, um," I say. "It's, you know. I just thought of something.

I knew I was supposed to understand that Rita was actually saying something very specific, that her pauses and stutters added up to a great and marvelous thing that a human male would intuitively grasp. But I had not a single clue as to what it might be, nor how to figure it out. Should I count the breaths? Time the pauses and convert the numbers to Bible verses to arrive at the secret code? What was she trying to tell me? And why, for that matter, was she trying to tell me anything at all?

But once again, Lily Anne proved that she saw things a little more clearly and shrewdly than her dunderheaded father. As I wrestled with all the concepts of foreclosure and moving and personal inconvenience, she cut right to the heart of the matter with an insight that was sharp and compelling. She bounced three times on her powerful little legs and said, "Da. Da da da." And for emphasis, she reached out and pulled on my earlobe. I

Deborah looked at me with a frown, and I frowned back. What Alana said made sense, of course, especially to someone untroubled by human feelings, like I used to be. It was clinically cold reasoning, serpentine but clear, and that certainly fit what we were coming to know about Alana. And yet—something was wrong with it, whether it was the way she said it or something else, I couldn't say; it didn't quite add up for me.