Quotes About Clarity

Clarity of perception and thought evidently requires that we be generally aware of how our experience is shaped by the insight (clear or confused) provided by the theories that are implicit or explicit in our general ways of thinking.

we merely say that man is continually developing new forms of insight, which are clear up to a point and then tend to become unclear. In this activity, there is evidently no reason to suppose that there is or will be a final form of insight (corresponding to absolute truth)

The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

The moment you know you know you know.

Our own filters and biases cloud our abilities to understand and to communicate effectively. It

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

What you really want is to be able to pick up a book and understand what the author is saying in the least amount of time.

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

Stop making sense

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

Don't mistake legibility for communication

Never mistake legibility for communication.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

Loneliness is the price you pay for keeping things uncomplicated

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

There was nothing dreadfully wrong with me, I was just upsetting myself with my irrational thinking. I just couldn't admit it until I knew for sure. Now, I feel like a whole man, and I had to call you up and let you know where I stood . . . It was hard for me to do this, and I'm sorry it took so long for me to get around to telling you.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

Good/bad explanation An explanation that is hard/easy to vary while still accounting for what it purports to account for.

the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. "Intelligence services," the man had said, "are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it's dark.