Quotes About Clarity

Hold on. Pru gave him a long look. if you're trying to say you don't want to do this after talking me into it, then let me be clear and say that I will run you through with my umbrella while you sleep. Finn blinked. That was oddly specific and violent.

If it didn't bring her joy, then forgetaboutit.

He who is most content with the least has the most," and "I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

Harry? Bob asked. Are your feet wet? And can you see the pyramids? I blinked. What? Earth to Dresden, Bob said. You are standing knee-deep in de Nile.

Why is it that you've never got the least goddamned clue what's happening inside your own head. Have you ever noticed this trend? Doesn't it bug you sometimes?

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

The words first. Damned near everything begins with words. I am, I breathed, and suddenly the ice was clear of my mouth. I am Harry... I panted, and the pain redoubled. And I laughed. As if some freak who never loved enough to know loss could tell me about pain.

This whole thing, I said is going to come down to guessing who isn't what they look like. Who is? Karrin asked, her hands moving surely over the weapon. Ever.

Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them.

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.

Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?

How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?

One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles?

I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today. Sire? You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain, Albion said. I can hardly let something like that go unremarked. I don't understand, sir, Grimm said, frowning. Captain, your clarity of thought in the face of unexpected disaster is a rare quality. It's a poor reward for such heroism, but I'm afraid that I must insist upon continuing to use you for the good of my Spire.

Describing something helps to define it, to give it limits, to set guardrails of understanding around it.

I had time to think, though I wasn't sure I wanted to.

But dammit, words mean what they mean, even if everyone thinks they ought to mean something else.

How are you going to talk to someone who has no idea?" Grimm said, nodding. "How can you explain something you can't find words for? How can you get someone else to understand something for which they have no frame of reference?

My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine.

Wizard knows what he is talking about." "No, I really don't," I said. "That's the problem." "But you know that you do not know," Michael said. "Which is wise.

The important things don't need to be said.

Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that.