Quotes About Clarity

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beautiful part is that I have carte blanche.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

For nearly a decade, I thought it was obvious that I was poor.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you, who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise, everything is luminous, but not clear.

There was a way, of course, to deal with the papers. If the ears of the reporters were geared to capture accurately the mediocre remarks of mediocre men, then one had to look for simple salient statements, so poetically bare, but so irreducible, that they would stick in the reporter's mind like a thorn.

To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. Carry this with you on your journey, he said softly, for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

Where is the sound? someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, It's on the tip of my tongue.

Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?

as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly. How do you see something that isn't there?... sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are...

But that's just as bad," protested Milo. "You mean just as good," corrected the Humbug. "Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things." "I don't know which side of anything to look at," protested Milo. "Everything is so confusing and all your words only make things worse.

you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.