Quotes About Clarity

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

For a long while she had been oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze, over all her desire to make her life greatly effective.

The story can be told without many words.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within

Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense.

as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees

Direction! I know very well what you mean by direction. When there's a bigger maggot than usual in your head you call it 'direction

Un'intelligenza perfettamente sana è sempre un po' spaesata in questo pazzo mondo.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. To

without being obliged to dress itself in an elaborate costume of knowledge;

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

a terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

The shortest answer is doing.

What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F