Quotes About Clarity

Some might say I was seeing things, but the true optical illusion was in seeing others and oneself as undivided and whole, as if being in focus was more real than being out of focus. We thought our reflection in the mirror was who we truly were, when how we saw ourselves and how others saw us was often not the same. Likewise,

For we are the ones most able to know ourselves and yet the most unable to know ourselves. It's as if our noses are pressed up against the pages of a book, the words right in front of us but which we cannot read. Just as distance is needed for legibility, so it is that if we could only split ourselves in two and gain some distance from ourselves, we could see ourselves better than anyone else can.

Ignorance is beneficial when we are aware of it.

I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch.

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things - maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.

Darkness shows no wrong path to those who get what they want before dark.

Do not create in anger what you lack in reason.

Everything has its shadow if you bring it in the light.

Explaining to an ignorant person is like knocking at the door of a deaf man.

He who doesn't know what life is knows nothing.

He who explains things to an intelligent person need not tire himself out talking.

He who knows nothing is as blind as him who cannot see.

Life will show you what you did not know.

Maturity is the ability to discern the ignorant without discussing them.

No questions, boy, then you won't get no lies.

One word of wisdom is as good as a hundred ordinary words.

Quotations in conversation are torches in darkness.

Solution is always simple once you have the technique.

The best way to spend the happiest life is to know nothing.

The fool speaks when he has nothing to say.

The less you say, the more you don't have to apologize.

The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know he didn't know what he was talking about.