Quotes About Clarity

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

A good decisions are never brought in a state of rage.

Words are not heavy. It does not take more than one of you to carry my reply.

You cannot deceive the mirror

Life is not easy, but, at least, it can be simple.

The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

Emotions and irrational thoughts tend to cloud our mind. They make our mind foggy so we can't think in the ways we should when situations arise. When our minds become cloudy, we don't always think before we act or speak. Instead, we act irrationally and sometimes quickly, which could easily make the situation worse.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

Finally, don't be fooled by words like orientate or commentate, misguided back-formations from orientation and commentator; orient and comment do the job just fine. Don't use big words to gloss over the truth or to pump air into ideas.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to "Write hard and clear about what hurts." It's good advice. But to follow it, you must stop reading.

Phrases can build grace into sentences. Taut declarations lend clarity, but too many of them can start to sound like a Dick-and-Jane story. A strategically placed phrase can turn a staccato burst into a more lyrical sentence. This is what we mean by "turning a phrase"—using our command of language and our mastery of the rhythms of a sentence to affect style as well as substance

Don't look for mysteries. I give you pure joy.

You never have to apologize for the thing you don't say.

Det gjelder å komme på det rene med hvor i tiden man er.

It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Live in rooms full of light.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")