Quotes About Clarity

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

?Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.