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Quotes About Clarity

if there be some points which correspondence can never settle, but which can be made clear by conversation in two minutes, at other times just the opposite is the case: an objection clearly stated in writing, a doubt well expressed, which elicits a direct and positive reply, helps things along more than ten hours of oral intercourse!
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
~ Piers Anthony
A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only acceptable case for being in any particular place is having no business there.
~ Piet Hein
I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.
~ Piet Hein
Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.
~ Piet Hein
CANDLE WISDOM If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.
~ Piet Hein
Den som kun ta'r spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt Han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt
~ Piet Hein
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
~ Piet Mondrian
I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.
~ Pieter Willem Botha
Do not peer too far.
~ Pindar
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
~ Plato
There is truth in wine and children
~ Plato
Truth comes out in wine.
~ Pliny (the Elder)
In wine, there's truth.
~ Pliny the Elder
In vino veritas
~ Pliny the Elder
In vino veritas ("In wine, truth")
~ Pliny the Elder
The purification of the Soul is simply to allow it to be alone; it is pure when it keeps no company.
~ Plotinus
There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.
~ Plum Sykes
Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no discourse to be current which did not contain in few words a great deal of useful and curious sense.
~ Plutarch
You want to know where your fears are hiding? Tell me what you know about yourself. Tell me what you can't live without.
~ PO BRONSON
The Buddhist view asserts that the nature of all beings is primordially pure and replete with positive qualities. Once we wake up enough to see through our confusion, we see that even our problematic thoughts and emotions are, at heart, part of this pure awareness.
~ Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen
Simple living high thinking..!!
~ Pooja
My hope, O Lord, is in you. You are my Way, my Truth, my Life; my one and supreme good. Help me to never lose sight of my ultimate destination or be detoured by the maze of slogans clamoring for my attention. Keep my heart and my gaze fixed on you, who give meaning to everything in and around me.
~ Pope Paul VI
I don't know what I want sometimes, But I know that I want to know what I want. I know that once I know what I want I will be able to get it. Of course, I may not want what I get when I get it... But, at least I'll know I don't want that! Then, I can move on to something else I don't know if I want. That's progress!
~ Portia Nelson