Quotes About Clarity

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

In some ways we should be far better off if we never used words. There are those who think that, in this matter of confusion, learning helps. But it may be the means of making confusion worse confounded.

For every complex problem there is a simple solution. And it's wrong. – Anonymous

Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. —Zen mantra

Kevin: 'Hey, Dad. How do you stop people from being stupid?' Dad: 'You don't.' Kevin: 'Really?' Dad: 'I've tried to explain to people when they're being stupid, but then I realized something: Most people like being stupid.' Kevin: 'I don't get it.' Dad: 'Some people just prefer it. It makes their lives easier if they let other people think for them.' Kevin: 'But that doesn't make sense. That's just stu...Oh...

Length isn't as important as what you say and how you say it.

Like that. It's all right. It's not all right. It's right.

I suddenly do want to. I don't know why. I don't understand it. I'm not even sniffing around the edges of understanding it, but suddenly I want more than anything in the world to tell her. [...] I want to tell her because I realize now that it's true: I love her and I need her to know, and if I don't say it now, I'll never say it, and it has to come from me.

now it's like something's been born. Unintentionally, sure, but good, in its own way. But holding me back? Maybe? I don't know anymore. I don't know anything. I want to keep baking pizza. I want to go away. I want to figure out how Aneesa feels about me. I want to end it all. I want. I want. I want. I want too much and I don't know what I want at all. It used to be so easy, so clear.

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

choose less and feel better.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Who was scarier - the girl who didn't care about the bigger picture, or the kids who did care, but were looking at the wrong picture?

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

In so far as we understand, we can desire nothing but that which must be, nor, in an absolute sense, can we find contentment in anything but truth.

A passion seizes to be a passion as soon as we form a clear idea of it.

Indeed, just as light makes manifest both itself and darkness, so truth is the standard both of itself and falsity.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

No burlarse, no lamentarse, no detestar, sino comprender

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

Don't need what you want. Want what you need.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown

Think of what you're saying, You can get it wrong and still you think that it's alright Think of what I'm saying, We can work it out and get it straight, or say good night