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Quotes About Clarity

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.
~ Mardy Grothe
I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.
~ Sara Sheridan
Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.
~ Gautama Buddha
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation is bringing the mind home.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
~ Nhat Hanh
It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.
~ Neil Simon
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
~ Robert Frost
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
~ Leo Tolstoy
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
~ Billy Collins
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
~ Meredith Monk
Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.
~ Bo Lozoff
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
~ Oscar Wilde
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
~ Novalis
At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent
~ Paul Kantner
Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
~ St. Jerome
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
~ Sam Harris
Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.
~ Howard Behar
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
~ John Francis Dodge