Quotes About Clarity

To live simply was to evade the worries that came with complexity. This end was achieved at the expense, alas, of intelligence.

Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free.

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

As much as it grieves me to say, there are times when getting what one wants yields nothing but confusion. It turns out that what one wants is in fact not at all what one wants. Worse is when you simply don't know what you want. You'd think death would discard such trials. If only it did.

Returning to… sanity? Perhaps. But Heboric Ghost Hands had no firm grasp of what sanity was, what it looked like, felt like, smelled like. It might be that he had never known. – TB 486

Always keep it simple. Complex ideas make people nervous. Complex ideas as people to think, and people don't want to think.

Exactly. Peace of mind." "Fatal delusion, you mean.

It is invariably those lacking in intellect,' Gothos expounded, 'who unceasingly rue their misfortune. The curse of the witless is to beat one's head against the obstinate wall of how things really are, rather than what

One can find precious value in brevity

Udinaas had known many for whom certainty was a god, the only god, no matter the cast of its features. And he had seen the manner in which such belief made the world simple, where all was divisible by the sharp cleaving of cold judgement, after which no mending was possible.

Lo que sabía Tool de los detalles había suscitado en Toc muchas preguntas pero ninguna duda.

it is knowledge that makes one aware of his or her own chains.' 'Knowledge only makes the eyes see what was there all along

since nothing else made sense.

Out of your depth, Captain? Don't worry, every damn person here's out of their depth. Some know it, some don't. It's the ones who don't you got to worry about. Start with what's right in front of you and forget the rest for now. It'll show up in its own time.

The truth of futility was the hardest truth of all, and for those clear-eyed enough to see it, there was no escape.

Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.

It was a bright, clear day, and the car felt alive to her, as though the way she and the car moved together was a sort of destiny, and everything was happening exactly as it ought to.

Steering is for people who know where they're going.

You keep saying that. I'm not sure it means what you think it means.

Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.

We don't like feeling that events are out of control, so we put reality into an order that makes sense to us.

13. The more distorted our sense of reality, the more certain we will be that what we believe is accurate. 14. The more insistent a person is about the accuracy of his or her observations, the more likely it is that his or her sense of reality is distorted.

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

La unica forma de poder deshacerse de la palabra [un termino], es hablar lo bastante sobre las cosas y finalmente escapar de la palabra y conseguir lo que realmente quieres.