Quotes About Clarity

If you cannot fashion your life as you would like, endeavour to do this at least, as much as you can: do not trivialize it through too much contact with the world, through too much activity and chatter. Do not trivialize your life by parading it, running around and displaying it in the daily stupidity of cliques and gatherings until it becomes like a tiresome guest. (As Much As You Can)

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

The ice cubes in her voice were clinking mercilessly.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Overconcentration on any one point is distortion.

As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there's too much noise in my world.

When I write, I intentionally erase any knowledge from my mind.

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't

G. K. Chesterton's observation: "The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Merry sighed. "Once again, Andrew, you've opened my eyes. To what, I'm not sure.

Radiance unrelenting— no peace, no shadow, no shelter now—

Like asking at first Where am I after dream—and the room, in pieces, slow, comes back

Here comes the word for mystery. Here is the word for true.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?

If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: "He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.

I know personally, both from having science explained to me and from my attempts to explain it to others, how gratifying it is when we get it, when obscure terms suddenly take on meaning, when we grasp what all the fuss is about, when deep wonders are revealed.

Intuitive: The word conveys, I think, a diffuse annoyance at our inability to understand how we come by such knowledge.

No gastes neuronas en lo que no funciona.

Isn't it confusing to have the same name as that scientist guy?" It took me a moment to understand. Was he pulling my leg? Finally, it dawned on me. "I am that scientist guy," I answered. He paused and then smiled. "Sorry. That's my problem. I thought it was yours too.