Quotes About Clarity

Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

Sometimes I wish I could put my whole life on pause...just make everything stop for a while so I can figure shit out.

Pino forced himself to stop. He could not let fear take control of his brain. Fear had no business here. He had to think, and he had to think clearly.

that was when life made sense. Now there's nothing but madness.

remembering what I had forgotten; of rediscovering what had been submerged under mental clutter.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

The first thing to do about a problem is to recognize it; the second thing is to state it; the third thing is to solve it.