Quotes About Clarity

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

las palabras son casi siempre retóricas o excesivas o metafóricas y por lo tanto inexactas

se puede estar bebido de tantas formas como se puede estar sobrio.

Es lo malo de dejar que la gente hable y se explique y por eso trata de impedirse tantas veces, para conservar las certezas y no dar cabida a las dudas, es decir, a la mentira. O es decir, a la verdad.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

A good cry is like a good rain.... Afterwards everything is washed clean, and for awhile, you can see for miles.

One of the habits that Dr. Stephen Covey discusses in his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Beliefs are choices. No one has authority over your personal beliefs. Your beliefs are in jeopardy only when you don't know what they are.

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

you don't need many. You need only one good one.

In the fool's mind, there are many choices; in the wise man's mind, there are few.

Instead of these mild, oblique approaches, we must learn, in such cases, to be irenically direct.

Este capítulo te ayudará a distinguir entre una discusión y una lucha, y a decidir lo que deseas sacar de una discusión.

The foremost quality of a commander is to keep a cool head, to receive accurate impressions of what is happening, and never fret or be amazed or intoxicated by good news or bad. The

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

we humans have a penchant for complicating stuff that probably shouldn't be all that complicated.

why are you ending our engagement then?" "Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel) "I don't understand." "I know

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

It was Sophie who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

Il parle couramment la vérité, mais personne ne le comprend car il use d'une langue morte.

Style can make complicated things seem simple, or simple things complicated.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.