Mary Pierce Quotes

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

Clarity precedes success.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Be decisive even when confused – especially when confused.

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.

A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.

The more I see, the less I know.

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.