Quotes About Clarity

Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

My government is as pure as Belgium glass ... Naveen patnaik

A new world was opening up in front of my eyes, a world which for me had not existed before. Maybe it had always been there, always existed, but I had never seen it, never realized it had been there all the time. How was it that I had been blind to its existence all these years?

Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

If you're careless and disorganized, you lose your ability to see things clearly.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

People who find dating confusing and bewildering almost always lack familiarity with themselves.

Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

It is not sufficient to know the right answers. One must also know the questions that produced them. Indeed, one must also know what a question is, for not every sentence that ends with a rising intonation or begins with an interrogative is necessarily a question. There are sentences that look like questions but cannot generate any meaningful answers, and, as Francis Bacon said, if they linger in our minds, they become obstructions to clear thinking.

La inteligencia se define fundamentalmente como nuestra capacidad para captar la verdad de las cosas.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the dark again.

True wisdom has a curious way of revealing to yourself your own true ignorance.