Quotes About Clarity

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Tertullian argued that the Bible is often difficult to interpret. Obscure passages must be interpreted by those which are plain.

There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

Je comprends ce que j'aime, et ne comprends pas ce que je n'aime pas. Et, comme j'aime peu, au bout du compte je ne comprends pas grand'chose.

Distinction without a difference.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

he was able to laugh at his weakness for fiddly words. When he and Boswell were in the Highlands and passed through Glen Shiel, Boswell described a mountain as 'immense', but Johnson corrected him—'No; it is no more than a considerable protuberance.' NICETY     1.

Johnson the poet recognizes that there are times when a little scientific precision may be sacrificed in the interests of a memorable formula. Thus 'to hiccough' is 'to sob with convulsion of the stomach', while an 'embryo' is 'the offspring yet unfinished in the womb'. 'Thumb' is defined simply as 'the short strong finger answering to the other four'. A 'puppet' is 'a wooden tragedian'.

Then we shall riseAnd view ourselves with clearer eyesIn that calm region where no nightCan hide us from each other's sight.