Quotes About Clarity

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

write clearly, to refrain from obscure allusions or from supposing that my audience possesses any prior knowledge

Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.

Solo gli imbecilli non hanno dubbi" "Ne sei proprio sicuro?" "Non ho alcun dubbio!

Truth may resolve doubt, but it has never been an analgesic.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Time discovers truth.

Even the serenity he felt was something that needed to be understood; it seemed a symptom of a deeper and more complete understanding that lay yet beyond him.

Truths kindle light for truths.

Watching Hamlet embarrassing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by showing them he knows they're liars and spies, Max was thinking, "Hamlet cares only about the truth, or only he cares about the truth, and it's so hard to find, too hard for anyone to find. Where is it?

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity?