Top 100 See Clearly Quotes
#1. When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.
Alan Finger
#2. The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
Henrik Ibsen
#3. The real test of progress is how we love God and our neighbor. Everything else is fluff, and potentially dangerous fluff, at that. It gets in the eyes, so that we no longer see clearly as God sees
Michael Pocock
#4. My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#5. What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.
Jodi Picoult
#6. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort is not all that comfortable, even if they see clearly want for something better.
Donald Miller
#7. Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.
Amy Neftzger
#8. Every wound I had was a light that either blinded me or helped me to see clearly.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.
Mayra Santos-Febres
#10. The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
Mark Nepo
#11. If there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle in the affairs of men. Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done - who's to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#12. [We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.
Wright Morris
#13. Leaders need to see clearly in darkness, Peregrine. You already do that.
Veronica Rossi
#14. You only see clearly with your heart. The most important things are invisible to the eyes.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#15. 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Anonymous
#16. The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
#17. As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
Albert Einstein
#18. Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is never going to be. The more we strive the murkier it becomes. All we are left with are approximations, nuances, multitudes of plausible explanations. Take your pick.
William Boyd
#19. If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#20. I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#21. What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#26. It was one of those moments when life's disguises are stripped away, when you see clearly what is real, and all you can say to yourself is useful to get that learned.
Claire Messud
#27. There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly
Victor Hugo
#29. And why does man weep when he is sad? I asked at last - Because the glass in the eyes must be washed now and then, so that we can see clearly, said the child.
August Strindberg
#30. Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.
Corey Ann Haydu
#31. Some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been set in front of you in this life, and try to act on that as bravely and honestly as you could, no matter what kind of rules you'd previously been living by.
Roland Merullo
#32. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.
Fernando Pessoa
#33. There comes a day when every girl loses the stars in her eyes. And then she can see clearly.
Josephine Angelini
#34. To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
Deb Caletti
#35. It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert Kennedy
#36. Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only possible when we see clearly into the nature of impermanence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#38. I am a mother. I see clearly that while I've been teaching them, they have been my reason to learn.
Tsara Shelton
#39. It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
Deb Caletti
#40. Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?
Jodi Picoult
#41. Trusting the resolve in my heart is but a stepping stone to the future I now see clearly.
S.K. Logsdon
#43. The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
Jean De La Bruyere
#44. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible to the eye.
Hans Christian Andersen
#45. I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.
Johnny Nash
#47. In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.
Ryokan
#48. Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.
Katie Kacvinsky
#49. I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#50. Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
Guillermo Del Toro
#51. In each moment may you see clearly, rest deeply, love sweetly, and live from the truth of your being.
Indigo Ocean
#52. Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. ( ... ) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.
Rudolf Von Laban
#53. Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'
("Queen Fantasque")
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#54. Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
Alan W. Watts
#55. When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
Nhat Hanh
#57. If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.
Nhat Hanh
#58. Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love we are bound to have for our neighbors.
Teresa Of Avila
#59. The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
Julian Barnes
#60. See clearly what seems intuitively obvious: entrepreneurs
Brink Lindsey
#62. Be willing to re-examine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly.
Wm. Paul Young
#63. No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.
Swami Satchidananda
#65. You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when your standing right there in the picture.
Amanda Howells
#66. Because when you're watching from the sidelines, invisible, it's easy to see clearly.
Cassandra Clare
#67. Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.
Elisabeth Elliot
#68. Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
Louis Mann
#69. Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
James Wood-Mason
#70. Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.
James Lee Burke
#72. The Log in My Eye You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye. MATTHEW 7:5
Joyce Meyer
#73. We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
Ouida
#74. Here the sky is wrapped in silk. The breathings of so many men and animals, and the smoke of your coal, and the fog, oh, it is too much. The Paris sky is perfect. A man must see clearly, to see something new.
John Pipkin
#75. It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.
Brandon Sanderson
#76. You can get to a place where you see clearly; that place is zero defensiveness.
Bryant McGill
#77. Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
John F. Kennedy
#78. It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Henri Poincare
#79. The light of lights streams through my mind, body, and affairs, revealing all in Divine order. I see clearly there are no obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the open road of fulfillment.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#80. We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.
Stanley Hauerwas
#81. It was better to see clearly. Even the ugliness of the world had its place. Eventually,
T. Frohock
#82. How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach
Hanshan
#83. Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
Nicky Oppenheimer
#84. It is necessary ... to point out to such people certain places where I am certain they will have only to see clearly to recognize the great difference ...
Canguilhem
#85. I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.
Pope Francis
#86. Many of us worry about the situation of the world ... We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.
Nhat Hanh
#88. A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.
Toby Keith
#89. A model is by definition that in which nothing has to be changed, that which works perfectly; whereas reality, as we see clearly, does not work and constantly falls to pieces; so we must force it, more or less roughly, to assume the form of the model.
Italo Calvino
#90. A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.
Ernest Howard Crosby
#91. AND NOW I KNOW THAT YOUR MORAL COMPASS IS PERFECTLY ALIGNED, THAT YOU SEE CLEARLY WHEN THINGS ARE WRONG, AND YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO STOP IT.
Kiera Cass
#92. I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.
Leonard Woolf
#93. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly. But even then, you don't want to trust them more than me.
William Paul Young
#94. Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all.
Jodi Picoult
#96. Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.
Jack White
#97. The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts ... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
George Fox
#98. It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing. I
Flannery O'Connor
#99. Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
Watchman Nee
#100. Tell the truth ... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
Lucille Clifton
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
