Quotes About Clarity

Imagination may lead one along the right path, but sometimes it makes one go astray. Besides, it is wise to be wary of drawing on one's reserves of knowledge, of piling information on to the facts and obscuring them.

There are exactly the same things in a room at night as there are in the daytime; it's just that you can't see them.

Son los hombres inspirados los que iluminan al pueblo, y los fanáticos quienes lo extravían.

Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más fáciles de entender a través de un libro.

The present cut cleanly, like a scalpel.

The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood

For it's as if by chance that I have gained This state so hard to find, wherein to help myself. If now, while having such discernment, I am once again consigned to hell, I am as if benumbed by sorcery, As if reduced to total mindlessness. I do not know what dulls my wits. O what is it that has me in its grip?

Just as on a dark night black with clouds, The sudden lightning glares and all is clearly shown, Likewise rarely, through the Buddhas' power, Virtuous thoughts rise, brief and transient, in the world.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

Pool of Shallow Waters

He was never able, really, to see things other than the way they were, he believed, and he took some pride in that.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… 'Your life does change as you get older,' she told me. 'You get into what's important and what's not'.

Sometimes you need to step back and think about whats really important.. the big picture is alot more important then temporary indulgences

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.

But I never could make much sense out of war.

he is so confused, he doesn't know his head from his feet.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

And why does man weep when he is sad? I asked at last—Because the glass in the eyes must be washed now and then, so that we can see clearly, said the child.

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The greatest truths are the simplest.

Truth is the daughter of time.

Slip me a piece of paper with 'Yes or No' on it, and I'll be the one to circle 'or' as my answer.