Quotes with clear-seeing

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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Joseph Conrad To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Bodhidharma To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • W. Clement Stone To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Bill Dedman Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Horace Mann Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Stein Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Jonathan Swift Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Burgess Owens We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of what is right and where blessings come from.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Sagan We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.
    with Anne Kalosh (October 1994), Bringing Science Down to Earth, Hemispheres
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bhagat Singh We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • William James We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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