Quotes About Clarity

I did not say that the line was eight inches long and would go into his vena cava, the main blood vessel to his heart. Nor did I say how tricky the procedure would be.

The wording should be simple and exact, Boorman went on, and use the familiar language of the profession. Even the look of the checklist matters. Ideally, it should fit on one page. It should be free of clutter and unnecessary colors. It should use both uppercase and lowercase text for ease of reading. (He went so far as to recommend using a sans serif type like Helvetica.)

Discussing a fantasy was easier—less emotional, less explosive, less prone to misunderstanding—than discussing what was happening before my eyes.

those... who are unclear about the pathways of their own definition...

Yet anger, like guilt, is an incomplete form of human knowledge. More useful than hatred, but still limited. Anger is useful to help clarify our differences, but in the long run, strength that is bred by anger along is a blind force that cannot create the future. It can only demolish the past.

It is sometimes both the curse and the blessing of the poet to perceive without yet being able to order those perceptions, and that is another name for Chaos.

But this is all about how very difficult it is at times for people to see who or what they are looking at, particularly when they don't want to.

Why what?" she snapped. "Now don't be silly. You know why." But I did not know why.

I see much better now and my eyes hurt.

Speaking at last becomes a vice, like drinking. And why speak, if words do not cloak thoughts ?

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it's served without advice or insight.

How the fuck did I get here? I thought. If I was going to be completely sober for the rest of my life, if I couldn't even have one drink at the end of a long and brittle day, then the life I lived needed to be a life from which I did not seek escape.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

Truthfulness itself is almost medicinal, even when it's served without advice or insight. Just hearing true words spoken out loud provides relief.

I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.

His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.

I thought, This is how it feels inside the right decision.

Was it a universal truth that the closer you looked at something, the more you would see but the less you would understand what you where looking at?

Truthfulness itself is almost medicinal, even when it's served without advice or insight. Just hearing true words spoken out loud provides relief.

He likes things that make sense, and this word explains everything he knows about me. It makes perfect sense. Unless you don't know me, in which case it's delusional, irrational, and absurd.

It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child. It's that the things even a nitwit could do with little or no instruction often confused me.

SEEING THE TRUTH MEANS looking at everything for the first time, every time.