Quotes About Clarity

Not every English sentence beginning with the word why is a legitimate question.

obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity.

I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

It's odd how our fears, the ones we didn't know we had, alter our sight line and make us see things that never were.

Rien n'est jamais clair car nous disposons tous d'un éventail de moi parmi lesquels choisir.

Explaining is where we all get into trouble.

It is we ourselves who are responsible for knowing the truth

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

The reason this happens so often is the creators have to fight through so many dark difficulties, and wade through so much misunderstanding and confusion, they cannot see the light as others can, now the door is open and the path made easy. Please remember, the inventor often has a very limited view of what he invented, and some others (you?) can see much more.

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

Reflection opens up hope.

So don't confuse repacking with merely simplifying.

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, Ringil said quietly.

from the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW.

And for the moments that the embrace lasted, and a little while after, I felt as clean as the breeze coming in off the sea.

Estás intentando emborracharte? - Por supuesto que sí. Si tengo que hablar conmigo mismo, no veo qué necesidad hay de hacerlo sobrio.

A robe-straining belly offered itself. I stepped in and the Tebbit knife leapt upward, unzipping. I went eye to eye with the man I was gutting. A lined, bearded visage glared back. I could smell his breath. Our faces were centimetres apart for what seemed like minutes before the realisation of what I had done detonated behind his eyes. I jerked a nod, felt the twitch of a smile in one clamped corner of my mouth.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action?Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

No matter is too complex for the healing impact of divine mind. Divine mind arranges everything to its highest order. What lies within you knows how to act and when to act. Tuned to divine mind, you have an unshakable inner clarity that makes proper and appropriate choices. Your good is assured.

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO

The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our perceptions, we lose our misconceptions. As we eliminate ambiguity, we lose illusion as well. We arrive at clarity, and clarity creates change.

The brain enjoys writing. It enjoys the act of naming things, the processes of association and discernment. Picking words is like picking apples: this one looks delicious.