Quotes about Clarity

According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

A man with vision has a certain look in his eye and walk in his step. He walks like he knows where he is going and why he is going there, and George didn't walk like that.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity

When the confusion of accusations and excuses, of desires and fears, makes everything with us so obscure, he sees quite clearly into all our secrets. And at the heart of them all he finds a name which he himself has inscribed: Jesus Christ.

Whenever there was a dilemma, I just left it in abeyance and—without really consciously dealing with it intensively—let it grow toward the clarity of a decision. But this clarity is not so much intellectual as it is instinctive. The decision is made; whether one can adequately justify it retrospectively is another question. "Thus" it happened that I went. Bonhoeffer was always thinking about thinking.