Quotes About Clarity

obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence

Mmm, one does have to learn to look at art. But it's up to the artist to use language that can be understood. Most of these jokers don't want to use language you and I can learn; they would rather sneer because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If anything. Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Call it that if you like. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain't! See? —Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C.

Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished.

You evaded my question." "Then perhaps you had better assume that I intended to evade it.

Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." —L. Sprague de Camp

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe.

Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don't want. Think

Prof's purpose was to short him out – but sometimes Prof was too subtle; some people talk better if they breathe vacuum.

To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes; when you have eliminated what you can't do, what remains is what you must do.

heard Prof say, "Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

The beginning of wisdom is a firm grasp of the obvious.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

No wife, no horse, no mustache

If it were Hegel , I might suspect it means nothing. But Goethe means something, always.

All experience is a muddle, until we make a model to explain it. The model can clarify the muddles, but the model is never the muddle itself. "The map is not the territory"; the menu does not taste like the meal.

An indeterminate proposition cannot be verified or refuted at the date when we confront it, but there are clear scientific processes by which it can be verified or refuted at some future date.

The universe is so constructed as to be able to see itself," Spencer Brown once noted. The emergence of the neurosomatic, neurogenetic and metaprogramming circuits is the universe's way of "seeing itself" ever more clearly and totally, to decide where it is going.

The Fool sees not the same tree the wise man sees.

1) until the future arrives, the outcome is uncertain, so Doomsday scenarios, however popular, are not definitive and, for intellectual honesty and clarity, deserve to be criticized and challenged;

Villon is great because he doesn't pretend to know what he doesn't know. What he does know he tells us in direct language—language so simple that stupid critics have debated several hundred years now on what makes his poetry so strong.