Quotes About Clarity

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

When I do think, 'Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.