Quotes About Clarity

Comme dit Kinglake : un examen si minutieux qu'il finit par placer un objet sous un angle de vision mensonger est un plus mauvais guide qu'un rapide coup d'oeil qui embrasse les choses dans leurs justes proportions.

I must thank the Hon. Gentleman for making me acquainted with the word "outwith," with which I had not previously had the pleasure of making acquaintance. For the benefit of English Members I may say that it is translated "outside the scope of." I thought it was a misprint at first.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' DR. JOHNSON

A Constitution", said Napoleon, "should be short and obscure.

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

When you climb to the top of the hill and look down you can see everything, just like Jesus on the pinnacle except it's not very tempting.

Ante esta visión siempre me abandona la certeza de que lo importante es más importante que lo insignificante.

We leven langer, maar minder nauwkeurig en in kortere zinnen.

Chiedo scusa alle grandi domande per le piccole risposte che ho dato.

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Anything that can be said can be said clearly.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Estas cosas si las pensás, no las hacés, y si las hacés, ¿Ya para qué pensás?

Within my roasting brain cells, the scaps of thought refused to cohere.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state.

There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect, close attention to detail and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh. God does not exist. -- Why tolerate darkness? Everything is here and clear, if only we look carefully.

Cái quan tr?ng ? ??i là ph?i k?t thúc m?i th? cho ch?n chu. Có th? ta má»›i yên tâm mà Ä'i ???c. N?u không thì lúc nào trong ta cÅ©ng ??y nh?ng l?i mu?n nói mà ch?ng bao gi? nói, và lòng ta s? n?ng trÄ©u ân h?n.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

God's revelation was not a mystic secret for the initiated, but a light to guide every member of God's community.

Those who have slept with sorry in their hearts Know all too well how short but sweet The instant of their coming-to can be: The heart is strong, as if it ever sorrowed; The mind's dear clarity intact; and then, The vast, unhappy stone from yesterday Rolls down these vital units to the bottom of oneself.