Quotes About Clarity

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

A younger you might have responded impulsively by letting your emotions carry you away without much thought or consideration. Those same emotions may arise, but a maturity (often having to do with being responsible for others) stops you from acting on them. You know that whatever you decide to do here matters. It is time to call on Hecate to help you see the larger picture, to stay at the crossroad until it is clear to you which path to take.

Don't follow the passage of air all the way in and out of the body, but rather keep your attention focused on the site where you feel your breath most clearly.)

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

you've either got a brain or you haven't. If you have, then you don't need me to spell things out to you. If you haven't, there's no point in talking to you.

Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.

Les lettres que l'amour trace en nous ne sont jamais plus faciles à déchiffrer que sur la page blanche d'un esprit non préparé.

A È™ti anumite lucruri pe de rost îÈ›i confer? capacitatea unei înÈ›elegeri superioare.

Om niet terecht te komen in de valkuilen die onze zintuigen, ons dagelijkse denken en de vastgelopen logica ons voorspiegelen.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

La clarté est la souveraine politesse de qui manie une plume . (Clarity is the sovereign politeness of the one who wields a pen.)

Let us see but a little at a time and see that little plainly; that is the way to acquire substantial and lasting knowledge.

I only meant because sometimes the experience of reading can be corrupted by too many opinions.

Because everything else is just chingaderas.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

Do you think she'll want to later? Rosalind, I mean, not Aunt Claire. I mean, I'm sure Aunt Claire could do football drills if she wanted to, but I'd rather have Ros—I mean…" Tommy had trailed off into an embarrassed silence. Skye