Quotes About Clarity

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

All will come out in the washing.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.

I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.