Quotes About Clarity

I am unable to lead a life based on an illusion.

In any situation, the person who can most accurately describe reality without laying blame will emerge as the leader, whether designated or not. Here's

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

The point is—if you want something from me, tell me! If you're upset with me, tell me! If there's something you want me to do or stop doing, tell me! If I said something that didn't go down well with you, stop the conversation right then and there and tell me! And if you're happy with me, tell me!

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Yes, eyes are special. But besides the eyes of the flesh, which are mostly water, there are the secret eyes. Don't you know, that you can really see? In a way most people can't. And that most of what people are looking at is just debris.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art-and in criticism today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to the truth. —Fyodor Dostoevsky

I love you Daddy. How hard was that to say Why hadn't she said it before Because she wasn't sure she meant it or was she afraid it would be one-sided

Don't walk in circles. Walk in a straight line. At least you'll end up somewhere.

Precision in language was the key to clarity. Specificity

You think that I am angry, but I am not. You think I do not know why you have done what you have done, but I do. You think you have put all your heart into that writing and that every one in England now understands you. What do they understand? Nothing. I understood you before you wrote a word. What you wrote, you wrote for me. For me alone.

This realisation – the realisation of the Insignificance of the Knowledge – came to me in the form of a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.

He knew that there was a world of difference between these two notions: one was sane and the other was not, but he could not for the life of him remember which was which.

I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the world for her. She knew her link to real things was weak [...] She had hoped knowledge of mathematics, the world's rules, might strengthen her hold. But it did not. The world turned opaque and medieval, its every event mysterious. Now she uses a private mathematics, one made from omens and signs and dreams.

When something baffled him he found that if he kept on worrying it, he got no further, and lost his sense of proportion in the process. So when he came to a dead stop he indulged in what he called "shutting his eyes" for a little, and when he "opened" them again he habitually found a new light on things that revealed unexpected angles and made the old problem a totally new proposition. There

Look, Tad, you're quite sure that you have no idea, even in the back of your mind, where Bill could have been staying?" "I haven't got a back to my mind. I have just a small, narrow space in front where I keep all that's useful to me. A few telephone numbers and a prayer or two.

La verdad es la hija del tiempo.

The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.