Quotes About Clarity

we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean, make sure they know what you mean!

for had the boy seen what Lindberg meant by a personalized version of Alice's Rose of Jericho, he might have realized that there were other things that were not as they seemed.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-- make sure they know what they mean!

Things often are as they appear.

When you write vaguely, you are always vulnerable.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12

Effective decision makers are distinguished not so much by the superior extent of their knowledge as by their being aware of its limitations.

The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

miserable—We can see horribly clear, in the works of such a Man his whole life, as if we were God's spies.—What

Fino a che una cosa non ci ammala, non la capiamo.

Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...

Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

And in unraveling the complex we should always be careful not to overlook the obvious. John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society.

What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with good clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn't matter much to me.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.