Quotes About Clarity

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

There has been a revolution in our understanding over the last forty years, and the gains in knowledge are permanent. But we will never know everything, and that is as it should be. From the obscuring mist of the past, science has ensured that some of the mountains have emerged into clear view, but as soon as that happens the misty shadows of further peaks are glimpsed in the distance, rank upon rank: so many other heights to climb, so many mysteries to investigate.

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God's objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.

To approach these problems we once again rely on one of our guiding principles: transparency.

There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.

People hated to take their disagreements to the President; it was as though a failure to agree somehow reflected badly on each of them, and consensus, rather than clarity, was often the highest goal of the process.

I Am a lamp, so that you might see Me. I Am a path for you to travel.

Don't worry what people think now. Don't ever work for popularity. Above all, don't care what the newspapers say. What is important is that your decisions should be clear and stand up to history." Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.

and old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.

There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they're feeble-minded.

I will try to be consistent, no longer oscillating like some planet that has lost its way. For, at long last, I have found my sun.

Stay sane inside insanity.

We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.

Some men might make a complicated business of going after a burglar. It was simple and easy, the way I handled it. I crept quietly downstairs and into the dark living-room, and parried a blackjack with my head.

Way too late in life, Els learned that the time to concentrate yourself was right before sunrise.

They wouldn't know how to see what he put in front of their eyes.