Quotes About Clarity

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

Mes sens s'étaient usés jusqu'à la transparence, et quand je descendis au matin vers la ville, l'azur du ciel entra en moi.

One has to choose. The main thing is to know what one wants...

Once I had made my mind up, I could see nothing but the advantages.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Être aveugle pour se croire heureux. Croire qu'on y voit clair pour ne pas chercher à y voir puisque : L'on ne peut se voir que malheureux.

When one talks it's in order to be understood.

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

Mi chiamo Davide Griffo e sono mortificato per avere alzato la voce, ma non capivo quello che il suo agente mi andava dicendo. È straniero?». Montalbano preferì sorvolare.

Andrea Camilleri

I'm not feeling regret. I'm feeling confused and off balance." "And you like being in control." "Not of others, but of myself, yes.

And the sad happiness said, You know precisely when you're going to finish.

But how can I put a name to what it is that I want? How am I to know that I really don't want what I want, or that I really don't want what I don't want? These are intangibles that the moment you name them their meaning evaporates like jellyfish in the sun.

Let there be light. This

Christianity does not displace scientific accounts of the world; rather, it lends them ontological depth and clarity, and in doing so, discloses a greater vision of reality – a vision that gives both intellectual resilience and existential motivation to the task of apologetics.

For him there had to be a reason for everything; it had to make sense – and to make one sense, not two.

Just be aware that you reach a point of diminishing, or even negative, returns as the specifications get more and more detailed.

If you add layer upon layer, detail over detail, the painting becomes lost in the paint.

EVERY PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE MUST HAVE A SINGLE, UNAMBIGUOUS, AUTHORITATIVE REPRESENTATION WITHIN A SYSTEM.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

A large part of our day is spent communicating, so we need to do it well.