Quotes about Clarity

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

No invisibles, sino inadvertidas, Watson. No sabÃ

Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

I have been pursuing my own train of thought for more than thirty years, undisturbed by all this, just because it is what I must do, and I could not do otherwise, out of an instinctive drive which is nonetheless supported by the confidence that what is thought truly and what throws light on obscurity will be grasped at some point by another thinking mind.XX

But this is all about how very difficult it is at times for people to see who or what they are looking at, particularly when they don't want to.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to the sky over motionless water. The water seemed immovable, the stone flowing. The stone had the stillness of one brief moment in battle when thrust meets thrust and the currents are held in a pause more dynamic than motion. The stone glowed, wet with sunrays.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.