Quotes About Clarity

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

We will not be caught in no man's land.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.