Clear Quotes

• Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

  Thomas Szasz

  Courage, Thinking, Clear Thinking

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Inspiring, Success

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• Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

  Peter Berg

  Eye, Heart, Friday Night Lights

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• It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

  Joseph Conrad

  Blessed, Fog, Achievement

  1915 Victory, author's note.

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• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

  Flann O'Brien

  Enough, Said, Distinction

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Smile, Yoga, Honor

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• I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

  Richard Pryor

  Thanksgiving, Believe, Struggle

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• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  A. C. Benson

  Business, Mean, Decision

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• Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Pride, Thinking

  "Saiva Siddhanta" by Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volume 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

  Carl Jung

  Time, Wine, Years

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• To be clear... no one is above the law.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Law, Above The Law

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• The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Safety, Purpose

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.327, Best Books on

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• There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Freedom, Business

  "The Divine Afflatus". New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917; reprinted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Second Series", 1920, and in "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Law, Police, Criminals

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• Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us.

  Mike May

  Opportunity, Fuel, Holding On

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• Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

  Placido Domingo

  Opera, Concerts, More Money

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• Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.

  Will Arnett

  Foxes, Coming Back, Wells

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• Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

  Tom Skerritt

  Talking, Vision, Directors

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• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Topics, Trouble, Scholar

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• As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

  Christopher Bond

  Blow, Iraq, Progress

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• Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Past, Views

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• I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

  Stephen Harper

  Support, Definitions, Traditional

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• The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Hurt, Heaven

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching”

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• When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Complacency, Zen Buddhism

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• One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Long Distance Relationship, Light, Movement

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