Quotes About Clarity

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

As he walked though, listening to his happy footfalls, he felt the world telling him to stop looking, for then he would see beyond; to stop thinking, for then he would comprehend; to stop trying to make sense of things, for then he would find the truest grace.

They also reminded me of a story Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher included in one of his speeches about the early nineteenth-century French diplomat Talleyrand and his archrival, Prince Metternich of Austria. When Talleyrand died, Metternich was reported to have said, "I wonder what he meant by that?" It seemed that no matter what I said or how plainly I said it, the markets tried to divine some hidden meaning.

I already was painfully aware that the Fed chairman's remarks can easily be misunderstood or overinterpreted.

I knew perfectly well what it was about.

I told her that I was frustrated by market participants' inability to grasp the plain English meaning of my statement.

I was puzzled, but shortly thereafter learned the reason.

But I knew that we would need to do more to get our message across.

I am glad that we reached out, and not only to explain the Fed's side of the story amid the barrage of negative coverage.

Today I wonder whether we should have been more forthcoming, and not only because our vagueness has promoted the mistaken view that we could have saved Lehman.

There was a refreshing purity to their views, which seemed often unaffected by real-world complexities. The

thanks to the lack of moral clarity on the right. It's not enough to be good on policy. Americans must think of you as good. By neglecting that deeper battle, conservatives sow the seeds of their own destruction — and the destruction of American freedoms, as well.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Truth is the answer, love is the reason.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

No--no other man is cursed With such doubleness of eye, They can hunger, they can thirst, But they know for what and why.

God is not the author of confusion, everything that he says is the sure word, it is constant.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I have reached the point in life where I no longer accept false hopes, the palliative care of counterfeit wisdom.

What we deem insignificant may bear light to the whole world.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

L'amour n'est qu'un point lumineux, et néanmoins il semble s'emparer du temps. Il y a peu de jours qu'il n'existait pas, bientôt il n'existera plus ; mais tant qu'il existe, il répand sa clarté sur l'époque qui l'a précédé, comme sur celle qui doit la suivre.

Ignorance never settles a question.