Clearly Quotes
2192 quotes by 1642 authors
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We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.
— David James Duncan
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The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their…
— Agatha Christie
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You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you…
— Paulo Coelho
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The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave…
— Pema Chodron
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Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build…
— Paulo Freire
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In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All…
— Leonard Cohen
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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,…
— Douglas Adams
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Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
— John Newton
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We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am…
— John Green
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A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet…
— Sam Harris
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
— Tom Robbins
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Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By…
— Haruki Murakami
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But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely…
— J D Salinger
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The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side…
— Anne Lamott
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I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told…
— Mark Twain
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for…
— Rachel Carson
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