Quotes About Clarity

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

Lewis closes his book, The Abolition of Man, with these prophetic words: "You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. . . . If you see through everything, then everything is transparent.  But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world.  To see through all things is the same as not to see." 

To philosophise with open eyes is to philosophise in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

They have understood of others' lives what they were capable of understanding. But even if it were like that, it would be otherwise.

Aurélien, cette nuit, s'approuve. Tout lui devient logique, signe de son amour.

Tout ce qui n'est pas moi est incompréhensible.

If you still have to ask, shame on you.

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

For the first time in my life the beautiful story made clear sense. I began to cry, overwhelmed by the emotion. For many years the Bible had been a mystery to me, but now it was an open book. This was the clincher: how could I suddenly understand the Bible when I never could before? How often had I picked it up and put it down because I couldn't make heads or tails of what it was all about? But with the Holy Spirit as my interpreter, the meanings were obvious.

Fives feel so close to their mothers that they sometimes overestimate her ability to read their minds. They are often quick and a little impatient and don't always give all the necessary clues as to what they are talking about. Then they tend to be quite angry if she doesn't pick up on their story at once. It takes a quick wit to be a mother.

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

There is nothing that I so admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

It's very illuminating to have to make a list, which you will very possibly have occasion to use, of the things you'd save in an extremity. It reduces one's material possessions to their proper place.

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.

You have to get in touch with your inner guidance because it is the wisdom that knows the answers for you.

Trust your Inner Guidance to reveal to you whatever it is you need to know.