Quotes About Clarity

No humbling of reality to precept.

the sunlight has neverheard of trees

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don't go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

What do you say, Pooh?" Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely." "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit. "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows." "What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. "Well," he said slowly.

One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought is already shaped along certain lines before we have begun to follow it out. Again, a word may have various meanings, and our use of it in one sense may deceive our readers (or even ourselves) into supposing that we were using it in some other sense.

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Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

Contemplation is not compatible with the complications and burdens of an excessively comfortable life.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view. It destroys the purity of their world.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view.

You want self-knowledge? You should come to America. Just as the Mahatma had to go to jail and sit behind bars to write his autobiography. Or Nehru had to go to England to discover India. Things are clear only when looked at from a distance.

What is plain should be said plainly.

Showing the light to birds of the night is like hiding it from them, because it blinds them and becomes for them more obscure than darkness.

La maladie et le deuil sont les meilleurs baromètres pour savoir ce que les gens pensent vraiment.