Quotes About Clarity

A Hun without a purpose will never know when he has achieved it.

I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.

The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five.

Tepetaklak duruyorsun, her ?eyi tersten görüyorsun; böyle durmakla, özgürlük türküsünün e?li?inde dans etti?ini san?yorsun. Gördü?ün bu karabasandan uyanacaks?n küçük adam ve göreceksin ki, yata??ndan yuvarlanm??, çaresizlik içinde yerde yatmaktas?n. Çünkü sana bir ?ey verenden çal?yor, seni soyana bir ?eyler veriyorsun.

Don't let me think.

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

To think clearly about the future, we need to clean up the language that we use in labeling the beliefs we had in the past.

Everything makes sense in hindsight.

She is a hedgehog. She has a theory that explains everything, and it gives her the illusion that she understands the world.

It is often the case that when you broaden the frame, you reach more reasonable decisions.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

I found in the collaboration was that Amos frequently saw the point of my vague ideas much more clearly than I did.

The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event predictable in advance.

two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

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Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

It is difficult to reconstruct what it was that took us years, long hours of discussion, endless exchanges of drafts and hundreds of e-mails negotiating over words, and more than once almost giving up. But this is what always happens when a project ends reasonably well: once you understand the main conclusion, it seems it was always obvious.

President Truman famously asked for a "one-armed economist" who would take a clear stand; he was sick and tired of economists who kept saying, "On the other hand Ã¢â'¬Â¦

She has a coherent story that explains all she knows, and the coherence makes her feel good.

coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it.

knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

A world in which firms compete by offering better products is preferable to one in which the winner is the firm that is best at obfuscation.