Quotes About Clarity

Truth wears no mask Bows at no human Shrine Seeks neither place nor applause She only asks a hearing.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

Vigorous writing is concise.

The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.

You don't have to speak much if you speak well," Meloux replied.

Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.

Bobby had a gift and the gift was his simplicity. The world for Bobby Cole was a place he accepted without needing to understand it. Me

Popper says that the best way out of the problem of having unconscious points of view is to state clearly one's view and to recognize that there are also other points of view.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't you ecstatic?

Veritas, it's called. Don't you love it when

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

They saw the world in different ways. For him, life was like a story that had answers, or a conclusion that made sense. For her, the story was sinuous and unclear, and if there was happiness to be had, it might arrive announced, or it might land in the arms of another person.

Nothing is more beautiful than an organized width, and nothing is worse than an unorganized lapidary.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.

E=mc2 is even better than the best poetry: "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

And are even quite polite, at first, as they discuss whose name exactly it was their son had just said.

All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder.

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.