Quotes About Clarity

It's the reward of the business (historian), to look history in the eye & say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me.

And once you've seen that truth - really seen it - you can't look away.

It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me.

it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

it's important not to take offense unless offense is meant.

My point is that if you want something to happen, you must specify that something with great care and as much completeness as possible. Then, and only then, can you devise a strategy to accomplish what you really want—all of it—and not some little bit that turns out to be meaningless when everything else falls apart.

Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.

The world is full of people who can't think straight.

I want to clean myself like the window of a house, make myself clear for things to pass through. Flat and quiet.

He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.

If you weren't here I wouldn't see it, said Ingram, firmly believing it in the face of the fact that nothing ever escaped his acute vision. I see all this only through you. You are my eyes. Without you I go blind, I grope about with the light gone out. You don't know what you are to me, you little shining crystal thing—you don't begin to realise it, my dear, my dear sweet Found-at-Last.

How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending. Sitting by my pansy beds, with the slow clouds floating leisurely past, and all the clear day before me, I look on at the hot scramble for the pennies of existence and am lost in wonder at the vulgarity that pushes, and cringes, and tramples, untiring and unabashed. And when you have got your pennies, what then?

We are neither of us wise, but it is surprising how talking to a friend, even to a friend as unwise as yourself, clears up your brains and lets in new light.

Experience has taught me that whenever anything is on the tip of my tongue the best thing to do is to keep it there.

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

I think it is better to know the worst, rather than trying to imagine it.

Where there is no certainty the mind must turn to the light and not the shadow.

Well, God's vision is clearer than mine, he may both see a way out of this tangle and open my eyes to it when the time is ripe. There's a path through every forest, and a safe passage somewhere through every marsh, it needs only the finding.

Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got.

Wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. 1 Corinthians 4:5

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.