Quotes About Clearness

The viewless air seemed to be flocking with hidden listeners. The very clearness and the crystal silence were their ambush. He alone seemed to be the target of cold and hostile scrutiny. There was not a breath to breathe in this crisp, pale sunshine. It was all too rare, too thin. The shadows lay like wings everlastingly folded.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

Clutter is the enemy of clarity.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

And now, Sir, you may see in the greatest Clearness how every Thing in this World, every Thing in the Soul and Body of Man, absolutely requires the one Redemption of the Gospel.

To see the smallest means to be clear. To guard wisdom means to be strong. If one uses one's light in order to return to this clarity one does not endanger one's person. This is called the hull of eternity.64

The Cloudy Vase Past time, I threw the flowers out, washed out the cloudy vase. How easily the old clearness leapt, like a practiced tiger, back inside it.

was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

Don't be vague, ask for Haig.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Clarity affords focus.

What is not clear is not French.

who knows that he is profound strives for clearness; he who would like to appear profound to the multitude strives for obscurity.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.