Vernon Howard Quotes

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Personally, I like to put things in perspective.

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

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.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.