Quotes About Clarity

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.

to be cool, decisive, precise, yes, while the barn door hits you in the face

Aber dann kommt mir nicht mehr über die Schwelle, habt Ihr das verstanden, Ihr vor Selbstmitleid triefender Kadaver von einem Hanswurst!

Sanity, remember, does not mean living in the same world as everyone else; it means living in the real world.

Seek truth and you will find a path.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. —Attributed to Jim Barksdale, Stephen Covey, Steve Jobs, the band Last Call, and others

The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.

MRS GABOR (to Mr. Gabor): You have to be a man to be so blinded by doctrine that you cannot see what is staring you in the face!

Mincing your words makes it easier if you have to eat them later.

I hadn't noticed the tiles in the regular-size house. They were painted to look like flowers. I saw the dollhouse better than I'd seen the real room. That was because it was small and concentrated. Gentleman Jack had told me about distillation, how you take a liquid and boil it so that at the end there's less liquid but it's purer. It's more truly its own self.

We are so logic-driven that we can't stand the absence of it.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand.

As a man, I undertake to risk annihilation so that two or three truths can cast their essential light on the world.

Resorting to technical language means you are determined to treat the masses as uninitiated. Such language is a poor front for the lecturer's intent to deceive the people and leave them on the sidelines. Language's endeavor to confuse is a mask behind which looms an even greater undertaking to dispossess. The intention is to strip the people of their possessions as well as their sovereignty. You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand.

You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand

In every combat unit and in every village, legions of political commissioners are at work enlightening the people on issues which have become stumbling blocks of incomprehension

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.