Quotes About Clarity

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.

It was like staring into a clear pool that seemed shallow, inches deep, but you might toss a coin in that glassy water and it would fall and fall, spiralling down forever without even striking the bottom.

Once, to my delight, I even saw him wearing pince-nez. (Later, I discovered that they weren't real prince-nez, but only had glass in them, and that his eyes were a good deal sharper than my own.)

how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet -- for me, anyway -- all that's worth living for lies in that charm?

I knew then, and know now, virtually nothing

it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment

Booze made people sloppy and unfocused:

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.

If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.

The springboard to the development of Lincoln's ambition can be traced to his recognition, even as a young boy, that he was gifted with an exceptionally intelligent, clear, and inquisitive mind.

we should look beyond our noses;

The young often have moments of clear thinking, which as they grow older become fewer, and muddied. He had kept alive in some part of him a knowledge that he was "destined" to do something or other. He felt this as pure and unsullied, but—more often and more deeply as he grew older—"impractical".

This is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

It is only in love and in war that we escape from the sleep of necessity, the cage of ordinary life, to a state where every day is a high adventure, every moment falls sharp and clear like a snowflake drifting slowly past a dark glistening rock, or like a leaf spinning down to the forest floor.

But she grasped points quickly and put them in simple terms. There is a type of mind, like Willi's, that can only accept ideas if they are put in the language he would use himself.

Algunos no saben distinguir el bien del mal ni siquiera cuando se les muestra.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.