Quotes About Clarity

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

Science aims at a closer relation between word and fact.

Math. . . . [is] akin to poetry: a way of taking a big idea and condensing and honing it until it communicates exactly the right information.

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.

With her hair and freckles she was dark gold like the bracken on the slope behind her; she fitted. He stared past her into the water of the lake, and saw it was very clear, and deep; sunlight coming through the trees sent spears into it, gold again, another world, shining above and losing itself below in darkness.

What is intended to be said, if left unsaid, becomes a matter of regret later.

just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.

Kabir says, only they are pure who've completely cleansed their thinking.

Umakni vso domišljijo, in se trdno okleni tega, kar dejansko si.

Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.

Silence is not a lack of words. Silence is presence itself. (p. 26)

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

And only through discipline is it possible "to see the world without the gross distortion of personal desire, and in seeing it so, accept more easily our earthly privation and its earthly horror.

One day in class, after a particularly difficult lecture, Oppenheimer quipped, "I can make it clearer; I can't make it simpler.

When I said I'd stay over, I didn't know that this was what you had in mind. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I… if you want me to go home now, that's fine.", Summer Jones in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow