Quotes about Clarity

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because that force, which is still present but more subdued, was very in your face, and we needed to take a step back just to get some clarity.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

St. Thomas is as practical and plain and reasonable in ethics as Aristotle, or Confucius, or your uncle.