Quotes About Clarity

Understanding is power and whoever has it has everything.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it.

But if you see something that no one else sees, I can only tell you this: Believe what you see. And if it is the unseen that speaks to you, believe that too.

She wanted her 4:00 A.M. brain to experience the house, the time when thinking goes spiral and catastrophic before morning light restores reason.

If I can manage to write up to about a thousand words early in the morning, no matter what else I'm doing that day, I feel at least I've got some work done. Often I find my ideas are clearer then. It's as if I've got all the imagination going through all my dreams as if it's still there in my head. I think that's a good writing tip to pass on. Write when you wake up.

Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

If this moment was a sentence, I'd be the period.

But we do not know yet who we are fighting and what we are fighting for.

Think about some of the "simplest

The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word.

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The two things cannot be separated. Truth must incarnate itself in reality; reality is empty without truth. If truth is the unfolding of meaning, this is the meaning of what we see to be real and not of an illusion or dream or phantom. This is how it is with us.

Dobro znam da mi jedino istina može dati radost i slobodu.

Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inversions autant que possible. Je ne mets pas un mot très bref à côté d'un mot de plusieurs syllables... Si un mot finit par une consonne, je lui trouve un compagnon qui commence par une voyelle. Et je lis mon texte à voix haute pour entendre comment ça sonne.

Si quelqu'un vous dit : "Je me tue à vous le répéter", laissez-le mourir.

To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.

I learned to create a little more space between my thoughts and actions—actually between my feelings and reactions. This is extremely important; without it, life can be a real roller coaster ride.

Only if you know to what extent your logic should go and where it should not go, your life will be beautiful.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.