Quotes About Clarity

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Purity is obscurity.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

Words should be weighed and not counted.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.

"Plain English" - everybody loves it, demands it - from the other fellow.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.