Quotes About Clarity

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Shut your eyes in order to see.

Less is more, more or less.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern Kunst macht sichtbar.

subtlety sometimes eludes me. Why not just hit the nail on the head?

Magna est veritas. Great is truth.

I don't get superheroes," she says, "if you could see through everything you'd see nothing at all.

Sobriety must come before everything else.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

Taoist (as well as Buddhist) science therefore seeks the eternal, universal light of consciousness that lies hidden like a 'shining pearl' in the heart of all sentient beings. Once the mystery of awareness itself has been fathomed, everything else comes sharply into focus with perfect clarity. As an ancient Taoist maxim says: 'If you can open this one gate, all other gates will open naturally.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

It is too clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, He could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Getting drunk or high every night. Being hungover every morning. You run out of options at a certain point. You come to understand why everybody else is living the boring life. And it doesn't look so boring anymore.

One always saw and sees through pretense.

Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

When you spoke to her there wasn't any mystery. In herself she was all the explanation I felt she needed. And that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become.

The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.