Clear Sighted Quotes

#1. Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Vladimir Putin

#2. The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Agnes Repplier

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

Joseph Conrad

#4. Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius ...

Claude Bernard

#5. The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Life is a hard thing that presses us too tightly, forever hurting our souls. Upon feeling those restraints loosen for a moment, one can experience clear-sighted pleasures.

Marcel Proust

#7. If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

Sergei Dovlatov

#8. We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

Robert Henri

#9. Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there.

John Armstrong

#10. Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

#12. I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

Robert Henri

#13. There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Jane Porter

#14. A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Vaclav Havel

#15. Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike - the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests - were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love -

Rabindranath Tagore

#16. A woman's love is strange and cruel and nearly always clear-sighted, love that sees is always horrible love, and she knew walking away was right and so she walked, dismissing the cries as only another part of the boy's development, like smiles from gas or scraped knees.

Stephen King

#17. You know, missing someone can sometimes be the best thing for a writer.

Lang Leav

#18. If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

Niels Bohr

#19. As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

Henry Rollins

#20. Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Olin Miller

#21. One of the challenges of secularism is that it's not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the church that sometimes it's the frame of reference even for very good people, people who have a strong allegiance to the church.

Donald Wuerl

#22. Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#23. Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. He could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein