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Quotes About Clarity

Never write a letter while you are angry.
~ Chinese proverb
Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.
~ Didier D'haese
Let nothing come between you and the light.
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1848
Sometimes just looking up and seeing the light is enough.
~ Terri Guillemets
Literature — a lighthouse to lost souls.
~ Terri Guillemets
In this light, let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
~ James Thurber
Love blinds the eyes and only regret will open them.
~ Surinamese proverb
Look both ways before entering the insanity.
~ Terri Guillemets
Now that is the way to write — peppery and to the point. Mush-and-milk journalism gives me the fan-tods.
~ Mark Twain
Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask.
~ Author Unknown
Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.
~ Author Unknown
...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...
~ Francis Bacon
It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.
~ Sarah Smiley
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
~ William Safire
Practice safe text — use commas and never miss a period.
~ Internet meme
Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.
~ Oliver F. Braston
A poet dares 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.
~ E.B. White, 1939
Proverbs are the lamps to words.
~ Arabian Proverb
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
~ Martin Gardner
Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.
~ James Murray, unverified
I never said half the crap people said I said.
~ Albert Einstein ??
I never said all that [$#*t].
~ Confucius ??
An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
~ Karl Kraus
Aphorism: a concise, clever statement. Afterism: a concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.
~ James Alexander Thom