Quotes About Clarity

Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

Winder's mind felt even fuzzier than it had done over the past few years, but he was certain about cake. He'd been eating cake, and now there wasn't any. Through the mists he saw it, apparently close but, when he tried to reach it, a long way away. A certain realization dawned on him. Oh, he said. YES, said Death. Not even time to finish my cake? NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.

Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.

When people say clearly something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent, said Miss Susan. But answers do.

But I don't believe in reincarnation! he protested. SQUEAK. And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in you .

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told.

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn't divide easily into 'true' and 'false', but instead could be 'things that people needed to know at the moment' and 'things that they didn't need to know at the moment'.

A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.

Every organization needs at least one person who knows what's going on, and why it's happening, and who's doing it.

Tiffany's Second Thoughts said: Hang on, was that a First Thought? And Tiffany thought: No, that was a Third Thought. I'm thinking about how I think about what I'm thinking. At least, I think so. Her Second Thoughts said: Let's all calm down, please, because this is quite a small head.

She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!

In life, as in breakfast cereal, it is always best to read the instructions on the box.

He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...

The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.

I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.

Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.