Quotes About Clarity

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.

Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us.

There is only one thing worse than arguing with a drunk,' Faradan Sort said, 'and that's arguing with a drunk who's right.

What see you in the horizon's bruised smear That cannot be blotted out By your raised hand?

our greatest enemies are those who are without certainty. The ones with questions, the ones who regard our tidy answers with unquenchable scepticism. Those questions assail us, undermine us. They…agitate. Understand, these dangerous citizens understand that nothing is simple; their stance is the very opposite of naivety. They are humbled by the ambivalence to which they are witness, and they defy our simple, comforting assertions of clarity, of a black and white world.

Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Darkness was anathema to shadows.

To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty.

The curse of the witless is to beat one's head against the obstinate wall of how things really are, rather than what they insist upon their being.