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Quotes About Clarity

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.
~ William Golding
Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.
~ William Golding
En büyük düÅŸünceler, en basit olanlar?d?r.
~ William Golding
The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.
~ William Golding
That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.
~ William Golding
What was real seemed illusive and without definition.
~ William Golding
Söyleyecek baÅŸka ÅŸeyleri yoktu, ama ikisi de hiçbir ÅŸeyin çözüme kavuÅŸmad???n? biliyordu.
~ William Golding
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were- I don't understand that first one yet, Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.
~ William Goldman
You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does.
~ William Goldman
A little maybe; I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said, 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.' ~ Westley
~ William Goldman
That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it.
~ William Goldman
Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, That explains it.
~ William Goldman
You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does." "How
~ William Goldman
You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
~ William Goldman
I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.
~ William Goldman
La existencia era realmente muy sencilla cuando uno obedecía órdenes. No había nada mejor ni más fácil que lo que le aguardaba.
~ William Goldman
Chief Justice Hughes once said that he tried to write his opinions clearly and logically, but if he needed the fifth vote of a colleague who insisted on putting in a paragraph that did not "belong," in it went, and he let the law reviews figure out what it meant.
~ William H. Rehnquist
if pastors know whose they are, where they come from, and why they are here, they will better know what to do, here, now.
~ William H. Willimon
Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
~ William James
Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.
~ William James
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.
~ William James
To know is one thing, and to know for certain that we know is another. One
~ William James
Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.
~ William James
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
~ William James