Quotes About Clarity

Don't just tell people that you charge fixed fees, show them. Go that extra step and publish your prices on your website.

I witnessed my life unfolding like someone who has awkwardly stumbled in after the movie has started. I sensed that something important had been revealed in the opening sequence, some essential knowledge everyone else was privy to that was being kept from me.

I lay and looked up through a mesh of twigs at the sky. It was very big, making me and my world look very small. There was something about that i liked. The words and tensions that cluttered life at 309, and made it hard to concentrate at school, slid away to nothing in that big sky

Being able to understand what someone else needs or wants, and to express what you need or want, is no small skill. In some ways, communication with each other is all we have. All of us are here trying to make ourselves heard and understood, and hopefully trying to hear and understand each other.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert on us.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Only describe, don't explain.

Darkness, you know, is relative.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you've never truly seen yourself at all. I

I know what loose ends can do to a soul. The sooner she knows the truth, whatever it is, the sooner she can get on with her future.

Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

Everyone's surprised by death. Which is kind of ridiculous when you think about it. It's not exactly a spoiler. But I think that what really shocked me is how many people can't see the shape of the life they've lived until they get to the very end of it.

What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

Sometimes you have to have the perspective of distance. And sometimes, you cannot tell what you're looking at until it's right under your eye.