Quotes About Clarity

Não há nada como o desejo para impedir que as coisas que se dizem possuam qualquer semelhança com o que se tem no pensamento.

for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. Besides,

Per vaim rectam,

Là où la vie emmure, l'intelligence perce une issue.

Não advertia que aquele detalhe verdadeiro tinha ângulos que só podiam encaixar-se nos detalhes contíguos do fato verdadeiro de que imprudentemente o destacara e que, quaisquer que fossem os detalhes inventados entre os quais o colocasse, sempre revelariam, pela matéria excedente e os vazios não preenchidos, que não era ali o seu lugar.

There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

For mental uncertainty is even more of an obstacle to clear visual perception than a physical defect of the eye would be.

A grande modificação que provoca em nós o despertar consiste menos em introduzir-nos na vida clara da consciência que em fazer-nos perder a lembrança da luz um pouco mais tamisada em que repousava a nossa inteligência, como no fundo opalino das águas.

In every life there's a full moon. As long as you can recognize it, at least, you can enjoy it and feel crystal clear and complete.

seis años son suficientes para hacerse muchas preguntas y, si no eres una idiota, para haberles encontrado respuesta a las que la tienen. Las otras, sencillamente hay que borrarlas del disco duro. Lo significativo es saber distinguirlas.

Perhaps without my always being fully conscious of it, the dishes continued to evolve, moving always toward a simpler, clearer expression of their primary flavors, and toward a steadily diminishing dependence on cooking fat.

La giornata era bellissima, smaltata e netta. Niente pareva lasciato al caso: punte e spigoli, tetti e antenne, grondaie e comignoli, apici d'abete e cime imbiancate. Come in una tavola fiamminga l'acuto sovrastava qualunque possibile rotondità. E pareva consigliasse di mirare in alto verso il turchese compatto del cielo, senza un sole che potesse sbiadirlo, né un volo d'uccello che potesse macchiarlo.

Hate is not an emotion that a prosecutor can afford. Hate clouds your thinking and distorts your priorities.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

When we read Paul, we are reading somebody else's mail—and unless we know the situation being addressed, his letters can be quite opaque...It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.