Quotes About Clarity

Perhaps I'm the only crazy person in here, but I understand zero - I mean ZERO - of what you said!

I opened my eyes as if to a new beginning; nothing I saw was familiar to me, my head was empty, no thoughts, everything quite clean and the sky transparently blue, and I didn't know what I was called or even recognize my own body. Unnamed, I floated around looking at the world for the first time and felt it strangely illuminated and glassily beautiful...

Light in every lamp, light in every mind.

I wondered how it might affect your way of thinking, if you always had a lighthouse in the corner of your eye.

One wandering thought pollutes the day;

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.

Running always gave me time to think. It wasn't like practicing with a team, when I always worried if I was fitting in with everyone else. When I ran, I never thought about screwing someone else up or ruining the team's chance to win. It was a solitary activity, and sometimes that felt nice.

We must cut through the veils and enter worship in spirit and truth.

How did you know that what you sought was redemption and not righteous vengeance?

To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.

fill the holes with facts, not flowers.

he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

I urged myself to live in a state of complete consciousness, even when that meant pain or boredom." - Pete Hamill.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

When our emotional intelligence is restricted, we often do not know what we really want, and can consequently struggle mightily with even the smallest decisions.

God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.

The best years are when you know what you're doing.

It's too easy to be stupid, and too easy to wake up in the morning with the feeling you said something that had more to do with want and despair than need.