Quotes About Clarity

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

As with the terms "physics" and "science," so too with terms like "cosmology" and "psychology," the wisest policy is, in my view, not to quibble about contemporary usage but rather to use the best modern labels, qualify them as one sees fit, and then to get on with matters of substance.

These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

We can only understand what we can name.

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing—detachment. —MEISTER ECKHART

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to know these facts, just as to cuddle and pat a sick child is a natural impulse. But telling a fact to a child may not cure his ignorance of it any more than patting him will cure his scarlet fever. (p. 61)

Tell it like it never really was and maybe we'll see it like it is.

ADD people love bottom lines," I answered, laughing. "It's always, 'Get to the point'; 'What's the next show?'; 'Where's the beef?' Ã¢â'¬Â "Yeah, you're right," he said. "I'm not big on scenery. I want to get there. Is that bad?

They speak their mind in Yorkshire.

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws.

When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here.

Art is the lie that helps us to see the truth.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.