Quotes About Clarity

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

It would be simpler than dealing with this sideshow.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu

The way to create something great is to create something simple.

For ever has it been that Faith and Love allow us to see clearly what we cannot see by eyes alone.

For ever has it been that Faith and Love allow us to see what we cannot see with eyes alone.

We are now more conscious of the problem of communication itself even in our own language. Familiar words have lost their meaning for many; or the same word means different things to different people. Jargon and cliches usurp the place of discriminating speech in many areas of life.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

It was bitterly cold, and the darkness was overwhelming. Everyone who lived through that night was amazed by the intense clarity of the sky overhead and the brightness of the stars. They found themselves in a land without power, television, telephones, a place suddenly plucked up and folded into a pocket of time, disconnected from the twenty-first century.

There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

he folded the parchment and put it away. The words raised some questions in his mind but as there was no one to ask he decided it was better to have good advice you didn't entirely understand than poor precepts that were perfectly clear.

When there are two possible solutions, favor the one that is simpler and based on concrete need rather than the more intricate one that boasts of generality.

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I've been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I've let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.

Tout est simple, lorsqu'on sait ce que l'on fait.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.