Quotes about Clarity
Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
- Herman Melville
No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.
- Herman Melville
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
- Conan O'Brien
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
- George Washington
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Exactitude is not truth.
- Henri Matisse
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"
- Desmond Tutu
In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.
- Jennifer Lopez
We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.
- Billy Graham
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
- CS Lewis