Quotes About Clarity

The lame (as they say) in the path outstrip the swift who wander from it, and it is clear that the very skill and swiftness of him who runs not in the right direction must increase his aberration.

Cititul îl face pe om deplin, vorbirea îl face prompt, iar scrisul îl face exact.

Kebijaksanaan dalam berbicara lebih berharga daripada kefasihan.

PrawdÄ™ Å'atwiej wyÅ'owi? z bÅ'Ä™dów ni? z zamÄ™tu.

Is it not knowledge that doth alone clear the mind of all perbutations?

And to make my meaning clearer and to familiarize the thing by giving it a name, I have chosen to call one of these methods or ways Anticipation of the Mind, the other Interpretation of Nature.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

The Church points only to Christ and anything that gets in the way of that proclamation weakens her mission.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?

Let us wash the cosmetics from our souls and look at the unadorned condition of our hearts.

Perhaps when you're young you think that something must be profound just because it is difficult and you don't have the self-confidence to say 'this is just nonsense

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Suspicion is a tenuous thing, so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth is not easy to determine.

Weiss ist immer Weiss und Schwartz ist immer Schwartz:

Trajeron caldo en unas escudillas de madera, tan claro, que en comer una dellas peligrara Narciso más que en la fuente.

Mas, vulgo, pues sé quién eres, a la larga o a la corta diga yo lo que me importa y di tú lo que quisieres.

I don't want to impose a retrospective clarity of will on what had certainly been months immersed in a flailing muddle, but if there isn't some truth to the narratives of progress with which we sometimes try to frame our lives, however rooted in desperate delusion, we'd never be able to speak them, certainly not silently to ourselves, with any conviction.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

I'm talking about how to stay in one piece. Try to get hold of the things that are important, the good and true things about your life. Up there is some kind of lovely. And maybe you need to have something in your heart, you know, something even more lovely. To help you find your way home. Otherwise maybe you could be beguiled." (Spoken by character Alan Bean)

The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack

The point about words is—the better you use them, the stronger is the thought that wears them.