Quotes About Clarity

The only truth about shadows is that you can't see them in the dark.

To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.

You can't make other people understand what you are trying to explain if you don't understand it yourself.

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

If a person understands what the Bible says, and if he does not impose his own stupid assumptions upon it, then the Bible will never appear contradictory to him. He will never see even one apparent contradiction in the Bible. This is because the Bible never contradicts itself.

No one can cheat him; no one can outsmart him. Rhetoric has no effect on him; false compassion cannot confuse him. He is one who searches hearts and minds, and he knows your infidelity.

Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

The church should constantly inform and clarify to the people what Christianity affirms through a clear and systematic exposition of the Scripture. Jesus has provided us with ministers to work toward this end.

There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

It is quite obvious that you do not understand me, and in all probability, you never will.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.

But what is it to me whether my chance is slight or great? I mean, must I consider this when I love? No—no reckoning; one loves because one loves. Then we keep our heads clear, and do not cloud our minds, nor do we hide our feelings, nor smother the fire and light, but simply say: Thank God, I love.

acredito que frequentemente o que sentimos ou o que pressentimos instintivamente torna-se claro e certo quando somos guiados por alguns textos que tenham um real sentido prático.

It does one good to read things like that, more than most of the stuff the decadents write, with their passion for saying the most obvious things in the most wildly contorted phrases.

When God supports us, illness is no misfortune, especially when we get new ideas and new intentions in those days of illness that would not have come to us if what not been ill, and when we achieve clearer faith and stronger trust in God.

Still, a great deal of light falls on everything