Quotes About Clarity

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know;

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! But it sufficeth that the day will end And then the end is known.

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

to early seen unknown...and known to late

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do;

Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

Mieux vaut mourir incompris que passer sa vie à s'expliquer.

Do you know me, my lord?' Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

Only look up clear: To alter favour, ever is to fear.

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.

I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.

Astros extinguíos! No aclare vuestra luz mis oscuros designios.