Quotes About Clarity

Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Francisco Presto: How do you know you are in love, Maestro? El Maestro: If you are asking, you are not.

You can find something truly important in a minute.

Finish your journey and you will know.

So what is the truth?" Mr Umezaki had once asked him. "How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn't want to be known?

the meaning clear, but the judgment suspended, and left the matter at that.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

because I know the difference between preaching and anesthesia.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

Baz?lar? der ki iyinin a??r?s? olmaz çünkü a??r? oldu mu zaten iyi deÄŸil demektir. Ä°nsan?n gözü karanl?kta da iyi görmez fazla ???kta da.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Think of yourself as a detective looking for clues to a book's general theme or idea, alert for anything that will make it clearer. Heeding the suggestions we have made will help you sustain this attitude. You will be surprised to find out how much time you will save, pleased to see how much more you will grasp, and relieved to discover how much easier it can be than you supposed.

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.

Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.

O esclarecimento só ocorre quando, além de saber o que o autor escreveu, você também sabe o que ele quis dizer com o que escreveu e por que escreveu o que escreveu.

It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For

Do not say you agree, disagree, or suspend judgement until you can say "I understand