Quotes About Clarity

Silence is the mother of truth

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

The trouble with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Lighthouses are more useful than churches.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

made the greater progress from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Truth is brighter than light.

who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind tries too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy. Such a mind, even if of high intelligence, is inefficient. It drives down the street in a fast-moving car and thinks its at the store, going over a grocery list. Then it wonders why accidents occur.

Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using Big Words that some of us can't understand ... and one sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the Scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

Knowledge and cleverness tend to concern themselves with the wrong sorts of things, and a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends to go chasing after things that don't matter, or that don't even exists, instead of seeing, appreciating, and making use of what is fit in front of it.

and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

I think, therefore I am... confused.

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Here in America my classmates don't know what they are living for, but in Israel, we know.

Se eu e você somos aquilo que penso que somos, não temos nenhuma necessidade de forçar o final

Knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.