Quotes About Clarity

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.

Los hombres de más amplio intelecto saben que no existe una verdadera distinción entre lo real y lo irreal; que todas las cosas aparecen tal como son tan sólo en virtud de los frágiles sentidos físicos y mentales mediante los que las percibimos; pero el prosaico materialismo de la mayoría tacha de locuras a los destellos de clarividencia que traspasan el vulgar velo del empirismo soez

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

On the other hand I won't conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once.

Istina nas uvek iznenadi.

Religion tells you everything when there is disarray.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same.

Wat zou ik anders moeten doen? Ik kan de mensen toch niet zeggen: 'Jullie begrijpen me verkeerd. In feite voel ik in mijn hart iets anders!' Dat is pas belachelijk.

Writing is an integral part of the process of understanding.

wits strong and clear

Is that what you wanted to hear? No. The man reached over, took hold of the lantern and blew it out. Night enveloped the barn. Well, he said at last to the darkness between them, that's when you know it's the truth.

Is that what you wanted to hear?" "No." The man reached over, took hold of the lantern, and blew it out. Night enveloped the barn. "Well," he said at last to the darkness between them, "that's when you know it's the truth.

When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now...

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye.

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye. – ANTONIE DE SAINTE EXUPERY

But he hasn't got anything on, a little child said.

Il mare appariva come una volta eterea, come un cielo solido e senza stelle sotto di noi, e nell'aria trasparente si perdeva nell'immensità; nessuna striscia, scura o luminosa, limitava l'orizzonte; c'era una chiarità, una vastità infinita, che non si può dipingere né descrivere, se non nella profondità eterna del pensiero.

Yet still they flew on and on, higher and higher, till at last the mirror trembled so fearfully that it slipped from their hands and fell to the earth, shivered into hundreds of millions and billions of bits. And then it did more harm than ever. Some of these bits were not as big as a grain of sand and these flew about, all over the world, getting into people's eyes. And once in, they stuck there and distorted everything they looked at or made them see everything that was amiss.

Bien des gens reçurent de cette funeste poussière dans l'Å"il. Une fois là, elle y restait, et les gens voyaient tout en mal, tout en laid, et tout à l'envers.

Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Like love, leadership continued to be something everyone knew existed but nobody could define.

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.

the cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.