Quotes About Clarity

If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

WHAT WE GAIN FROM MINDFULNESS

I'm going to say this once,' he said, 'so you had better listen. You're twelve years old and you have a lot of ideas in your head, but nothing will wreck you quicker than if you let yourself confuse what's real and what isn't, you hear me?

It seemed as if a glaze had been washed from my senses, brightening the sound of the traffic up ahead on the avenue, separating the bus's pneumatic brakes from the bass chug of the delivery-truck engines and the whir and bump of gliding taxis.

If only more people in life said, This is what I must have.

The key to fighting in the dark is no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies...But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing.

I know there are a number of things you know, probably too many things you know--too many, I say, not because any kind of knowledge has the capacity to be bad in itself, but rather because certain kinds of knowledge, particularly those kinds we often describe as arcane, can, by way of their very arcanity, serve to obscure the knowledge-bearer's understanding of the mundane.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.

In science we look to Occam's razor (or scientific parsimony) to understand phenomena, the concept that the best hypothesis is the one that requires the fewest assumptions.

For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong." H. L. Mencken

There is nothing worse than a long, rambling text from a collaborator who uses a whole page to say what can be written in a few lines."

When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.

The best part of using descriptive language is that it takes out the finger-pointing and accusation, and helps everyone focus on what needs to be done.

When we describe the event (instead of talking about what "you did"), we seem to make it easier for the child to hear what the problem is and deal with it.

Truth is a bit like depression. It creeps up on you. You don't notice it, you can keep denying it, but once it lands, it's indisputable

A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it

telling. I thought I knew this

I mean literally just heard

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Let's talk sense to the American people.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

To the Christian doctrine of the infinite significance of the individual human soul and of personal responsibility, I oppose with icy clarity the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance of the individual human being, and of his continued existence in the visible immortality of the nation".