Quotes About Clarity

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

We seem to have this tendency to want to make things simple with formulas-and yet our formulas consistently make them more complex.

There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. but many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed.

Sometimes when you've pulled and pushed at a problem without getting an answer, or tried to grab a too-slippery memory, if you completely dismiss the matter from consciousness, often — when it's least expected — the answer will pop up like toast from the depths of your unconscious toaster. I do it all the time. In fact, that may be why some people call me Shell Scott, the Unconscious Detective.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.

I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

I have told you where I'm coming from, so put it together.

Is there an acceptable result? Do we mean something when we talk?

There is no danger. It is not getting dark , we want to say.

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

there's no pure way to say it.

Explaining will get us nowhere.

Checklists, which are a form of routinization, 'remind us of the minimum necessary steps and make them explicit'.

Remember these rules: Don't say all when you mean most. Don't say most when you mean some. Don't say some when you mean a few. And don't say a few when you mean just one.