Quotes About Clarity

Of all the mind games you could play in life, the most important is this one: always tell the truth to others and to yourself.

The Mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark." THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense

Un contrato no consiste en decir lo que pretendes, sino en pretender lo que dices. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (Médico, poeta y humorista, 1809-1894)

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth.

Occam's razor

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow. Her voice held a smile. So am I

I couldn't find Dr. Flemming among the audience, either. So, Duke, Flemming, and Stockton had all ditched. Did that make me the last one standing? Did that mean I won? What, exactly, did I win?

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

The joy made him feel like a drunken man. To teach and exhort and explain to his people--and to have them understand. That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want—I want—I want—was all that she could think about—but just what this real want was she did not know. After

She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want—I want—I want—was all that she could think about—but just what this real want was she did not know.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see

Your amateur's not cluttered up with academic prejudice, Miss Holroyd," Richard Tindall was fond of saying. "He hasn't read every single thing that has ever been written on the subject. The amateur sees a problem in its simplest form and it doesn't occur to him that it's insoluble.

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...

DOOKU: The Jedi are supposed to protect the galaxy and yet we remove ourselves from it. Cut ourselves off. KOSTANA: So that our judgement isn't clouded! DOOKU: But what if that's wrong?

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.