Quotes About Clarity

The "why" is plain as way to parish church.

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

It was one of those times when the unsatisfactory complexity of the world fades far enough into the distance for the moment to become a thing in itself.

can seem very attractive to someone who has no idea at all what it really means; and

There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.

Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs--puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.

Learning a Word While Climbing It was a clarity come upon The mountains greater than the snow, a name Pronounced among them like an opening When a traveler finds a pass and escapes a storm. While I was falling I saw such a light: saved, My nylon rope came true and swung me free, I hung above the world and saw it, never So bright again, one long glimpse- Eternity.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may be heroic, but you will not be wise. If you have things right in your life but do not know why, you are just lucky, and you will not move in the little ways that encourage good fortune.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them--those are you, Those are why you are in the world.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe after a while, a better reason will pop into your head.

Blake, I know you don't live on Butt St, Uranus.

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.

The other often much prefers a clear answer, even if it is No, than continued indecision and waffling.

For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood.

Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

It's easy to be overwhelmed by our desires for material things, but the fact is, most of us know what we truly value. Sometimes we just need a little reminder.

Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.