Quotes About Clarity

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

Speech is the index of the mind.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

A stranger's eyes see clearest.

I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.