Quotes About Clarity

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The truth is unpalatable.

Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition.

A veil was, as it were, suddenly stripped away from a reality that had been there all the time, but which we had not seen before.

we rarely convey our thoughts adequately to others and this makes our relationships with other people problematic.

The hanifs had little impact on their contemporaries, because they were chiefly concerned with their own personal salvation. They had no desire to reform the social or moral life of Arabia, and their theology was essentially negative. Instead of creating something new, they simply withdrew from the mainstream. Indeed the word hanif may derive from the root HNF: "to turn away from." They had a clearer idea of what they did not want than a positive conception of where they were going.

The great vault over our heads was gradually filled with clarity like a glass with wine.

Ah, lassies, be sure ye make good decisions, firm and fast. Those who don't know what they want get what they deserve. OLD WOMAN NORA OF LOCH LOMOND TO HER THREE WEE GRANDDAUGHTERS ONE COLD NIGHT

It is surprising how many times a good feeling can be confused with a bad one. Often one is unsure which feeling it really is until much later.

There are times when simplicity makes a decision for you.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

Sometimes it was better to pick the first purpose that made sense and live for it single-mindedly than dither between goals that couldn't all be achieved.

You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it.

got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn't remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month? She had known Paul for eighteen years, been married to him for almost as long. There wasn't much left that they could argue about with any conviction.

I see you, she told him. I see exactly who you are.

She took a deep breath and asked, "I'm sorry, Captain. I'm feeling a bit discombobulated. Can you please start from the beginning and tell me what happened?

He shrugged. "It's always the Sunday following the first full moon that occurs after the spring equinox." Will took a minute to realize he was speaking English.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.