Quotes About Clarity

What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework.

La mente educada se distingue por no esperar más precisión que la que admite la naturaleza de la cuestión estudiada

while people were drowning in data, knowledge was nowhere to be found.

simplicity of choice, and promise of satisfactory results, in terms of psychology as well as arithmetic.

Antes de lanzarse a una incursión de ese tipo, el inversor debería estar seguro de sí mismo y de sus asesores, en especial a la hora de determinar si tienen una clara concepción de las diferencias existentes entre la inversión y la especulación y entre el precio de mercado y el valor subyacente.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It

If a man can't remember the laws," Ragnar said, "then he's got too many of them.

Shun epic verse.

Putting a cat into a stable doesn't make it a horse

I was doing everything wrong. I was confused. Confusion is inevitable in battle, but indecision is unforgivable, and I had hesitated to make any decision and then made all the wrong ones.

You road, Uhtred, is like a bright blade across a dark moor. I see it clearly.

Your road, Uhtred, is like a bright blade across a dark moor. I see it clearly.

The truth cannot be hidden.

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Ils ont découvert le principe de la «lettre volée» d'Edgar Allan Poe : le meilleur cachette est celle qui crève les yeux, car on pense toujours à aller chercher plus loin ce qui se trouve tout près.

Sein Vater hatte ihn immer ermahnt, wie wichtig es im Leben war, Ziele zu haben. Ohne Ziel wurde man hin und her getrieben und am Ende des Lebens hatte man gar nichts erreicht. Hatte man sich aber ein Ziel gewählt und hielt verbissen daran fest, dann spannte sich eine für andere unsichtbare Schnur durch das Leben. Eine Rettungsleine, an die man sich bei jedem Sturm klammern konnte.

What do you want now? Your whole life in one hour?

People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn't go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis, please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing.

Nothing weighed heavily

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.