Quotes About Clarity

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.

Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

I am the only real truth I know.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

To be simple is to be great.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.