Quotes about Clarity
all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
- Thomas a Kempis
By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.
- Thomas a Kempis
Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.
- Thomas a Kempis
Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.
- Thomas a Kempis
Give up everything, and you will gain everything; let go of your desires, and you will find peace.
- Thomas a Kempis
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall have abundance of peace.
- Thomas a Kempis
The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;
- Thomas a Kempis
Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
- Charles Swindoll
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
- Jesse Jackson
I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
- Ben Stein