Quotes About Clarity

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a group of people who most likely have never met, unify them, and make sure that we're all clear on what we're marching towards.

We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Jeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has failed to unite his own Labour MPs and has been rightly castigated for lacking any clear course.

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.