"Time is the clarity for seeing right and…" — Alan Lightman
"Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong."
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile…
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More Clarity Quotes
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended…
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other…
— Herman Cain
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
— Sandra Cisneros
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship.…
— Jennifer Aniston
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional…
— A. R. Ammons
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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give…
— Tom Cruise
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
— Ezra Pound
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the…
— Tadao Ando
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