Quotes About Clarity

If any of you are related to our main guest, let me know so I can speak slowly.

The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening.

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

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

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

Some day they will know what I mean.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known, (b) what is unknown, and (c) what is sought.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

Don't quote me; that's what you heard, not what I said.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.