Quotes About Clarity

the KISS principle—Keep It Simple, Stupid (or Keep It Super Simple)

human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A STRONG REASON, THERE IS NO SENSE READING FURTHER. IT WILL SOUND LIKE TOO MUCH WORK.

Finally I heard him when he said

That time alone with myself, having nothing to do, was priceless.

so I could think straight and become whole again.

VISTA es lo que ves con tus ojos. VISIÓN es lo que ves con tu mente.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

She said she'd have spoken years ago, only she thought I wouldn't. And I never spoke to her because I was sure she wouldn't speak to me. Isn't it strange how people misunderstand each other?

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

Mrs Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

Aunt Elizabeth was one of those people who never do understand anything unless it is told them in plain language and hammered into their heads. And thy they understand it only with their brains and not with their hearts.

Jo has given me a splendid rule. He says, when I'm perplexed, just to do what I would wish I had done when I shall be eighty.

there was certainly no need of fine-tooth combs in this case.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Att veta mer än som är nödvändigt, det är dårskap... tvivlar vi mer än som är nödvändigt så rycks maskerna av - och våra ansikten lyser spöklika och slappa i festskenet... vi får leta bland maskerna för att se vilka vi var - och gitter inte leta.

There was something different about her, Jake had to admit. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns .The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains.