Quotes About Clarity

Because when I saw you yesterday afternoon, you claimed you weren't sure that something was wrong with Cortland's grandfather. But if you sent a note to Sir Arthur, you must have been sure that something was wrong even before you brought Dr. Reeves there this morning." "Are you trying to evaluate your judgment or mine?" "Either or both," said Andrew with a grin.

Titus, the secret of joyfulness is hawg simple. I'm happy. Because I know who and what I be.

Everyone is sure they know what fascism is.

The little things gather for a long time, but one morning you look in the mirror and you understand them in a flash.

Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

This landmark book shines new light on things we thought we understood. —Charles Swencionis

Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.

Philosophy is the art of making distinctions.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

In the words of the Cambridge don Roger Ascham, Elizabeth I's tutor, one should "speak as the common people do…think as wise men do." Thomas

You must be dumber than you think I think you are.

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls...hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

You know who," Jack said. "I mean Flaire, of course.

a preliminary sketch. Your experience tells you that. But

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....

The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys peace.

Freedom from desire is the essential pre-requisite; find out the root of desires, the source from whence they proceed

thoughts have their origin in this stillness.

If you accept the idea that many of our most troublesome feelings are in one sense or another illusions, then meditation can be seen as, among other things, a process of dispelling illusions.

the problems that meditation can help you overcome often make it hard to meditate in the first place.

Buddhism offers an explicit diagnosis of the problem and a cure. And the cure, when it works, brings not just happiness but clarity of vision: the actual truth about things, or at least something way, way closer to that than our everyday view of them.

According to Buddhist philosophy, both the problems we call therapeutic and the problems we call spiritual are a product of not seeing things clearly. What's more, in both cases this failure to see things clearly is in part a product of being misled by feelings. And the first step toward seeing through these feelings is seeing them in the first place—becoming aware of how pervasively and subtly feelings influence our thought and behavior.