Quotes About Clarity

I left Jill's party thinking that sometimes it isn't worth confirming what we already know about people we understand so well. Because what Charlotte had wanted that night wasn't me.

It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.

old Russian proverb, beloved by Solzhenitsyn: "One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

La adversidad es el primer camino hacia la verdad" Lord Byron

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

It is about time that we discard all bunkum--

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever…

Knowing why you can't will tell you why you can.

Lógico es todo lo que se entiende aunque no sea verdad.

resolved into them.

Accountability begins by clearly defining results. If the results are not clear, then accountability will break down, resulting in lower morale and misaligned work

The more concrete and simple your goal, the better.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

simplicity without oversimplification.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Understanding is not agreeing.

It is in mathematics that our thinking processes have their purest form.

while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

that if she clears her mind down to the deepest level then three things will happen: she'll never be afraid; it will be easier to love people; and it will be easier to die.

some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been set in front of you in this life, and try to act on that as bravely and honestly as you could, no matter what kind of rules you'd previously been living by.

Because to live without the cup means you must feel the world as the world really is. People make the armor from their smartness, or their anger, or their quiet, or their fear, or their being busy, or their being nice. Some people make it from a big show, always talking. Some make it by being very important. Many people do not make it, though, and those people can begin to see the world as it is.

Isn't the spiritual search, at its essence, a movement toward objectivity?

Anger is like hands over your eyes when another person is trying to show you.