Quotes About Clarity

The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

Light means nothing to a blind man.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.