Quotes About Clarity

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.

It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.

The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.

But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated

I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.

Focus on our ignorance." She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.

a few more facts out into the open.

Succinct is always good in inter-office communications.

That's the end of it?" "Not quite. I've invited Grant to a little confab in my office tomorrow, with Porter Smalls. Mitford will be there, and her campaign manager, and I'd like you to sit in. And I'll get Rose Marie to come along." "Why is that?" "Because I want everybody clear on what happened here, and why everybody did what they did—including you and me," the governor said.

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

It's not the trees, you dense argumentative spoon

One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down.

What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can understand.

Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).

That's a distinction that's going to make a lot of difference to the ninety percent of humanity that doesn't know the difference between astrology and astronomy

Realborn go for years without the slightest clue what they're going to do with themselves. From what I understand, some of them never actually figure it out. They just walk through life in a daze and then fall into their graves at the end of it.

You need to explain this to me like I'm an idiot," I said. "Because clearly I am.

I don't appreciate the suggestion that I'm acting irrationally," he said. "Then don't act irrationally

Then Dahl remembered that until that very second, absolutely none of that was true.