Quotes About Clarity

We have been blind somewhat; blind after the manner of men, since when we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not?

I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.

We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

Want to know the quikest way to deafen people? Tell them the truth. - Prescia

Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then do we find peace in our choices.

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

Algunas veces es mejor no saber.

However, if application A is opaque and application B provides a rich set of observability tools, it's very likely that application B will be the better choice in the long run.

Are you? I said. Gay, I mean? - I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know. No, he said. I thought I was for about a w-w-week once. But now I know I'm not. If there was ever an answer that sounded like the truth, that was it.

Every time I open my mouth to say what I'm feeling, something stops me and I have to make sure I'm not going to say anything stupid. It makes me crazy. And then, once I've figured out what I'm going to say, I have to go over it, over and over again, just to see if what I'm feeling is right. And then I have to figure out how to say it.

And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst.

Cactus pear." "Cactus fruit," Evelyn corrects.

You just said your name was Pat." "No. I was wrong," I say sternly, staring directly at him. "I was wrong about my name being Pat. My name is Marcus.

The better you look, the more you see

blissful as ignorance

However, the molasses metaphor has three misleading features that you should be aware of.

Deep mysteries call for clarity delivered through a collection of nested stories. Whether reductionist or emergent, whether mathematical or figurative, whether scientific or poetic, we piece together the richest understanding by approaching questions from a range of different perspectives.

Some people consider facts to be dangerous things that must be locked away and carefully guarded. But I consider mysteries a far greater threat. We should seek answers wherever possible, regardless of the consequences. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, secret Erasmus dialogues

Successful people sort through priorities and act upon them, while the unsuccessful see only a fog of chaos. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, instruction to business trainees

Assumptions are a transparent grid through which we view the universe, sometimes deluding ourselves that the grid is that universe. —COGITOR EKLO OF EARTH

Knowledge is pitiless.

The difference between delirium and insight is only a matter of perspective. —DR. WELLINGTON YUEH, private medical journals

Those who think they see most clearly are often more blind than the rest.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions. —CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership