Quotes about Clarity

When it comes to the truth, people have a right to know it. Always. No matter how much you think it might hurt, the truth is the only thing that both cuts us free and holds us tight.

People in darkness don't know they're in darkness because it's all they've ever known. It's their world. They navigate primarily by bumping off things that are stronger. Immovable. They don't know darkness is darkness until someone turns on a light. Only then does the darkness roll back like a scroll. It has to. Darkness can't stand light. And it hasn't. Not since God spoke it into existence.

See it?" ... "Yeah." ... "How in the world did you see that in the first place?" "Don't know." "It's hard to make out." "Give it about ten minutes..." So we waited. Trying not to look at it so much that it lost all meaning. Like a word you say over and over until you're only hearing what it sounds like and you've forgotten what it means.

The truth is the only thing that doesn't hurt. The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts and holds us tight.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

[T]ruth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Such a person can see without "pre-judice", that is, without judging in advance; he will judge only on the basis of what he has really seen for himself.

They had answers to all of their own questions, but no answer for mine.

Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.