Quotes About Clarity

because looking is just the start of understanding, just its surface, the top layer of any understanding, the girl is saying

I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.

Jei žinai, kad jau pasimetei, tai reiškia, kad tikriausiai netrukus nepasimesi. Teisingai?

It was now free of obviousness.

It's why he'd got off the train here: the train had pulled towards this station and there'd been something clean about the mountains, clean like swept clean. They had something about them that accepted the fact of themselves, demanded nothing. They just were.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?

Shes direct enough

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

understood the world as much as possible through description rather than judgment,

People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

Writing is waiting. That's the whole of it. If you sit in your chair not doing anything else for long enough, the answer will come. You do have to be in your chair, though, ready to write it down.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...

This clearing is full of false lights, flickers that stop when you look.

I don't want this part where I don't know if I've dreamed it or not.

And, as usual, you don't really know what you want.

severed by light from myself not knowing but almost

When you've chosen the right path for yourself, you usually know it immediately. The choice just sits right in your spirit. You're not second-guessing your decision or thinking about turning back. You realize there are challenges ahead, but you're not looking over your shoulder, wishing you'd gone left instead of right at the last fork in the road.

When you've chosen the right path for yourself, you usually know it immediately. The choice just sits right in your spirit. You're not second-guessing your decision or thinking about turning back. You realize there are challenges ahead, but you're not looking over your shoulder, wishing you'd gone left instead of right at the last fork in the road.

Design is intelligence made visible.

Truth itself is the best prudence.

if I didn't ask questions, the truth would still be the truth.

As though, after five years, a light's been switched on, and how Camille Gardener feels is the only thing that matters