Quotes About Clarity

To think is not always to see.

she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.

Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

It was his habit, when he rewrote anything, to shed himself of all earlier versions. He kept a clean house.

I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air.

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. 

I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair , the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.

is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

and do not for the love of the Lord say you're laying down if you mean lying down.

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet

Nearly every day I wake up shocked at how little in this world I comprehend.

TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.

No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.

But a thing grows teeth once it's put into words. Now I felt that worm digging

But the weirdness wasn't in what I didn't know. It's what I did know.

tell him I am mopping the floor, spelled with a silent As you can plainly see, dumbass. He says he doesn't think that's going to do the job.

things I'd done with Hallie were clear, because we

Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it." "To stand in the clear light of day

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.

fraction of a second, before asking

Barry Eisler