Quotes About Clarity

Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.

was not made clear in the Treaty.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

He was continually called upon to explain himself and day by day it had grown harder so that by now there didn't seem to be any words, the right phrases hadn't been coined yet.

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

Simplicity is never to be associated with weakness and ignorance. It means reducing tons of ore to nuggets of gold. It means the light of fullest knowledge; it means that the individual has seen the folly and the nothingness of those things that make up the sum of the life of others. He has lived down what others are blindly seeking to live up to.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

"Inconceivable!" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The scientific literature shows that hunger, anger, loneliness, tiredness, pain, and stress are common "preconditions for poor decision making." So Shubin Stein uses an acronym, HALT-PS, as a reminder to pause when those factors might be impairing his judgment and postpone important decisions until he's in a state in which his brain is more likely to function well.* This is our seventh technique for reducing avoidable stupidity.

Blaise Pascal: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

What is said of some commentators, 'The places on which they treat were plain till they expounded them,' may be said of some preachers, their text was clear till their obscure dis course upon it darkened it.

Nobody is going to enjoy reading the contents of this book, but those who do read will be able to see things in their true perspective; they will be able to understand what is happening in the world today and why.

I keep [a] subject constantly before me," Newton once remarked, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.

A book is like a deck of windows

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript.

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

revelation hit me like an ice-water enema.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Although the truth exists objectively and independently of us, we can never be absolutely certain we grasp it.