Guy Finley Quotes

There is nothing clever about confusion.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it's our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

I want to have all of my faculties.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Clarity affords focus.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

A full mind is an empty bat.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.

You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.