Quotes About Clarity

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

She thinks in a straight line," said Tsanko. "There are no detours in this woman.

He added pointedly

Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

Preciso desta calma, preciso do nada no caos de tudo.

When you are infatuated with someone,like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

Bottoming can "turn off our brains" – giving us a quiet respite, in the endorphin high of pain play, the stillness of bondage, or the clarity of giving good service, from the day-to-day clutter and chatter of existence.

We all have some screws loose, common sense and intelligence can diminish that

Everyone's mortality is in the lens now and it's not necessarily a telephoto shot.

Freedom is knowing who you are, and once you know that the rest can straighten out itself if you really know who you are.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

when you didn't know what you didn't know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

Don't get me wrong," continued Jenna, "I have nothing against people with good working vocabularies. I'd like to think I have one. And sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

you didn't know what you didn't know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

This is awesome," he announced. "No more endless chatter. No more vicious, ugly thoughts from kids and parents and bosses and employees. No more disturbing sexual fantasies.

sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.

if you allow yourself to rise above a short-term perspective and super-charged rhetoric, the big picture is still looking better than ever before.

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.