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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• Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Intuition, Instinct, Hunches

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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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• 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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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

  John Wooden

  Clear Conscience, Pillow, Conscience

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  Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

  Redd Foxx

  Beauty, Beautiful, Words Of Wisdom

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• Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

  Keith Richards

  Drug, Police, Problem

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

  Richard Pryor

  Religious, Way, Made

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

  John Deacon

  Health, Air, Argument

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• It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

  Havelock Ellis

  Wish, Firsts, Becoming

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.25, Elsevier

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• By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

  Aeschylus

  Drinking, Water, Environmental

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• Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

  Laozi

  Positivity, Water, Muddy

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• I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.

  Willie Keeler

  Baseball, Ems, Clear Eyes

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• A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Focus, Matter, Concern

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Honesty, Ignorance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

  Elizabeth I

  Innocence, Innocent, Fear Nothing

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• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  William James

  Truth, Opposites, Would Be

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

  Peter King

  Pregnancy, United States, Wikileaks

  "The World Reacts to Massive Diplomatic Leak". www.spiegel.de. November 29, 2010.

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• I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.

  Ben Kingsley

  Arms, Villain, Embrace

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• Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Education, Literature, Cold

  Nobel Prize address, Stockholm, 12 Dec. 1930

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• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Doug Larson

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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