Quotes About Clarity

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Know what you are talking about.

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

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.