Quotes About Clarity

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

Joe had always considered individual words as finite unites of currency, and he believed in savings. He never wanted to waste or unnecessarily expends words. To Joe, words meant things. They should be spent wisely.

The truth is in the pudding.

Pero no, no viene. Supongo que es porque estoy tratando de recordar, y la clave está en no tratar, olvidarse. Olvidarse para recordar. Tendré que esperar un rato, pensando en otra cosa, y entonces sí volverá, claro y entero, acompañado de una sonrisa, o una risita secreta, disipado ese pequeño vacío y restituida la integridad de los hechos.

cayó en la trampa de la intuición que vuela a oscuras y da en el blanco antes de que el entendimiento pueda empezar a hacer lo suyo...

To let myself be, naked under the sun. To create internal silence. I have pursued this goal through all of life's twists and turns, almost like an idée fixe. This is the small and alarming idea that stands out in the midst of all other ideas and raises the volume of psychic noise, which is already quite considerable.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.

I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.... We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

Sanity begins with knowing your place.

I'm not a dog

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call "I" behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

What, on a lower level, had led to the wildest conflicts and to panicky outbursts of emotion, now looks like a storm in the valley seen from the mountaintop. This does not mean that the storm is robbed of its reality, but instead of being in it one is above it.

The whole work lies in the solution