Quotes About Clarity

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

Occam's Razor' (so-called because the principle encourages one to cut out unnecessary complications from theory) is ultimately aesthetic: why postulate two things when one will do? Or as Occam is said to have put it, 'It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer'.

Politics and the English Language," George Orwell concluded with six emphatic rules, including "never use a long word where a short one will do" and "never use the passive where you can use the active.

I have been struck by how important measurement is to improving the human condition," Bill Gates wrote. "You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal. … This may seem basic, but it is amazing how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.

When you open the blinds, open them like you're lifting the veil of enlightenment. Or just open the blinds. See?

People who argue do not understand; And people who understand do not argue.

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. The best way to remember where we put things is to have a place for them. As the saying does, "All things in their place, and a place for all things.

The idea came to me complete from start to finish – a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell you, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Simple doesn't have to mean easy.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

If you don't get it, you don't get it." ... "If you don't get it, you may yet.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Qui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivre N'a plus rien a dissimuler

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.

The whole thing seems absurdly easy - so easy that you ought to smell a rat.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

There is guidance for each of us," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a wrong direction in your life, it's only when you stop and look at things clearly that you can revise your direction and take a more proper course. Then message of Zen is that in order to find ourselves, we've got to learn to stop.

Now I see it's in the spaces where nothing is happening that one has to make a life.