Quotes about Clarity

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.

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.")