Clearsightedness Quotes & Sayings

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him. — Honore De Balzac

We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love. — Francine Jay

Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy. — Tom Shippey

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clearsightedness. Hence — Albert Camus

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. — Gustave Flaubert

Yet there was one problem: at the age of nine-and-ten, Laenor preferred the company of squires of his own age, and was said never to have known a woman intimately, nor to have any bastards. But to this, Grand Maester Mellos was said to have remarked, What of it? I am not fond of fish, but when fish is served, I eat it. — George R R Martin

I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn't snipe if they'd paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl. — Darynda Jones

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery. — Adam Smith

I'm your Creator", I said. "You're in the middle of a book right now-close to the end of it, actually. — Kurt Vonnegut

But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen. — Anatole France

What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I'm so gifted at findin' what I don't like the most — Kanye West

I was seven," she answered. "In my room, under the bed, I heard something like fingernails dragging across the floor. I got up the courage, hung my head over the side, and looked under."

"You're never supposed to do that," Mila gasped. "Seriously, don't you pay attention to the horror movies? — Lani Brown

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person. — Samantha Fox

I'm a nice person. I give money to starving babies and properly tip my hairdresser. Why am I the one everyone tries to kill? — Sophie Oak

I shouldn't be here," I appeal to the captain, wondering if I've told him this before. "I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends. — Neal Shusterman

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings. — Samuel Beckett