Quotes About Clarity

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

One of the great misconceptions we often carry throughout our lives is that our perceptions of ourselves and the world are basically accurate and true, that they reflect some stable, ultimate reality. This misconception leads to tremendous suffering, both globally and in our personal life situations.

Just as the light of a single candle can dispel the darkness of a thousand years, the moment we light a single candle of wisdom, no matter how long or deep our confusion, ignorance is dispelled.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. —W. Edwards Deming

So, start every change project with a clear and compelling statement of the goal you're trying to achieve. Measure your progress. Don't leave it to intuition or hunches. Measure your measures by the behavior they influence. And finally, measure the right thing, and measure it frequently.

I told myself all that's wrong with us is misunderstanding. That's not good, but it's not the worst. The worst is not having anyone to have a misunderstanding with.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own.

No era necesario poner lo que uno tenía que decir en un poema, un ensayo, un cuento o una novela. Sólo había que decirlo.

On the other hand, I had to remind myself that, unlike you, I'm the sort of person whose imagination gets overstimulated from very little. And sometimes I get confused between what I've nakedly perceived and what I've varnished upon that perception.

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him. Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L——, Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.

Demek ki hayat?n?n k?rk beÅŸ y?l?n? körlük içinde yaÅŸam??t?, kendisine veya dünyaya ait hiçbir ÅŸey bilmeden.

People today would hardly understand me if I started writing about freedom and honour ... Nowadays, silence is the better policy. I am writing purely to obtain clarity for myself, and, so to speak, 'pro nomine dei.' May He forgive me my sin!

The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.

So?" Alderheart refused to understand.