Quotes About Clarity

We can't hide from the truth.

I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

I don't believe in muckin' about and hiding ambition.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level.

I think my dad is highly gender-neutral. If he doesn't like someone, he'll articulate that, and I think it's also part of what resonates about him. He'll say what he's thinking.

Once I lose focus that's when I'm going to go tumbling down the hill.

I run hills anytime I really have to think.

I used to like Mukeshji very much because his Hindi was excellent. It was very clear, and his pronunciation was excellent. No one could match that.

Relax!" old Ben urged him. "Be free. You're trying to use your eyes and ears. Stop predicting and use the rest of your mind.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary. What is that, grandmother? To understand other people.

Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.

if there be such a thing as truth, every fresh doubt is yet another finger-post pointing towards its dwelling.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else.

Foreseeing is not understanding, else surely the prophecy latent in man would come oftener to the surface!

You are right. Curdie is much farther on than Lootie, and you will see what will come of it. But in the meantime you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' 'What is that, grandmother?' 'To understand other people.' 'Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

Our Lord was not in the habit of explaining away his hard words. He let them stand in all the glory of the burning fire wherewith they would purge us.

Everything in the world is more or less misunderstood at first: we have to learn what it is, and come at length to see that it must be so, that it could not be otherwise. Then we know it; and we never know a thing really until we know it thus.

Then let us be of one heart too, Dawtie! She was so accustomed to hear Andrew speak in figures, that sometimes she looked through and beyond his words. She did so now, and seeing nothing, stood perplexed. Willna ye, Dawtie? said Andrew, holding out his hands. I dinna freely understand ye, An'rew! Ye heavenly idiot! cried Andrew. Will ye be my wife, or will you no?

alas, how little can language say without seeming to say something wrong!

The fact was, that the moment he began to love Alice, his eyes began to send forth light. What he thought came from Alice's face, really came from his eyes. All about her and her path he could see, and every minute saw better; but to his own path he was blind. He could not see his hand when he held it straight before his face, so dark was it. But he could see Alice, and that was better than seeing the way-- ever so much.

To give truth to him who loves it not is to only give him more multiplied reasons for misinterpretation.