Quotes About Clarity

we probably don't know many of the answers and can't argue cleverly. And yet I suppose there's room for the stupid as well,

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?

It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.

The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. This is accomplished only when the narrative moves steadily ahead, not when it comes to a weary standstill, overloaded with every item uncovered in the research.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

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the two lights of the world.

Sometimes when a prose poem is floundering, I rewrite it as verse, and it's better in that form. The reverse process of verse into prose poem, also works to clarify what's working in the writing and what's not. It's not a blunt line that demarcates the difference between verse and the prose poem.

Beauty warms, and Truth illumines.

My dear sir, if we only talked about what we understood, our conversation would be extremely limited.

Supreme happiness to reason, that is the Ideal of the intellect, is the attainment of certainty upon every subject and about all things.

He who remembers, sees; and he who sees, can fly.

If you knew the meaning of light you would yourself be a light in a dark place.

Your case against me is so very clearly stated I plead no contest, I just turn and shrug I've come to figure all importance overestimated You must mean water when you beg for blood

The image we produce is the self evident one of revelation..that can be understood by anyone who will look at it without the nostalgic glasses of history

My fresh perspective provided her with a new alternative that had always been available to her; she just wasn't seeing it.

All the work you've done up until now has been to lead you to this precise moment, to face precisely what you're facing.

Transformation comes not by adding things on but by removing what didn't belong in the first place.

the whisperings from the heart are always authentic and singular in their focus. The heart knows what it wants. The

Now death was a place, a place to which people disappeared forever when they died, a place that gradually sucked away the clarity of memory afterward for a similar one-way journey.