Quotes about Clarity

You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.

One wanted fifty pairs of eyes to see with, she reflected. Fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one woman with, she thought.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

To know the truth—to accept without bitterness

With every word the mist which had enveloped them, making them seem unreal to each other, since the previous afternoon melted a little further, and their contact became more and more natural. Up through the sultry southern landscape they saw the world they knew appear clearer and more vividly than it had ever appeared before.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy.

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

Not to put too fine a point upon it.