Quotes About Clarity

If you think too much about a thing, it is no longer innocent even if, in truth, it began that way

About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.

It's a virtue to know one's own heart and mind. It saves a lot of bother and a great deal of unhappiness.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

I can't tell anymore when I'm asleep and when I'm awake, or which is worse.

The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.

Mi sgridano perché non riesco a vedere quello che vedono loro.

Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.

Light had dawned in the utter darkness.

I looked down into my glass. It held club soda, but the way I was gazing into it you'd have thought it was filled with something stronger. I used to stare like that into glasses of whiskey, as if they contained coded answers. All they did was dissolve the questions, but there was a time when that was enough.

Assuming that the manner in which something is said is often as relevant as its content, I have edited as little as possible, changing sentence structure only when clarity would be otherwise sacrificed, and revising unorthodox spelling on the premise that linotype operators have a difficult enough life as it is.

Words, the acid-bath of words.

Balthazar sighed and said Truth naked and unashamed. That's a splendid phrase. But we always see her as she seems, never as she is. Each man has his own interpretation.

First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do - then you have to sleepwalk a little to reach it.

This weird translation of feelings into gestures which belied words and words which belied gestures, confused and disoriented her. She needed someone to tell her whether to laugh or to cry.

God's real and subtle nature must be clear of distinctions: a glass of spring-water, tasteless, odourless, merely refreshing: and surely its appeal would be to the few, the very few, real contemplatives?

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Being is the great explainer.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

You read between the wrong lines.

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious