Quotes About Clarity

It is easier to tell the truth: you don't have to remember anything.

1. "Knowledge is an attribute (sifah) through which ignorance, doubt, or conjecturing is removed from him who is alive."129

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

All I know about humour is that I don't know anything about it.

When we learn new words and ideas, and then begin to see them everywhere, the world is suddenly more legible and more vivid. Language reveals to us what was always there, but to what before we may have simply passed over, we now feel intimately connected.1 —Meara Sharma

You can even name a conversation. Naming a conversation tells people what kind of conversation it is.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

Inexorably accurate translation from Latin provides a training in observation, analysis, judgment, evaluation, and a sense of linguistic form, clarity, and beauty which is excellent training in the shaping of one's own English expression," asserted Frederic Wheelock.

Satori (enlightenment) is described as nothing seeing itself as such.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Cerul înstelat este ce cel mai sincer prieten din via??; este mereu acolo, î?i d? întotdeauna pace, î?i aminte?te mereu c? nelini?tea ta, îndoiala ta, durerile tale sunt nimicuri trec?toare. Universul este ?i va r?mâne de neclintit. Când tragem linie, opiniile noastre, luptele noastre, suferin?ele noastre nu sunt a?a de importante ?i de unice.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.

Practicing zazen is like gradually (or maybe not so gradually) getting your sight back.