Quotes About Clarity

When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

The stunning beauty of the truth lies beyond the veil of habits.

I appreciate not being interrupted in the middle of thinking about nothing.

Take any ten years of your life, reduce them to two pages, and every sentence has to be three words long. It's a good assignment. You can't hide behind a sapling.

You can appreciate things at four in the morning that would go right past you during the day.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?… Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

Quote by Robert, a garçon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves—though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave.

A Lighthouse brand is one that has a very clear sense of where it stands, and why it stands there. This sense of self is built on rock—a

is a Naked, and Open day light, that doth not shew the Masques, and Mummeries, and Triumphs of the world, halfe so Stately, and daintily, as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearle, that sheweth best by day: But it will not rise to the price of a Diamond, or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure.

Sometimes you really want to say Duh, but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.

You are singing to the preacher, said J.Lo. Preaching to the choir, I corrected him. Yes. This thing.

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right? Didn't write any decent girl characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. The

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

Es mucho más probable que los hombres descubran métodos idóneos y expeditos para alcanzar cualquier objetivo cuando toda la atención de sus mentes está dirigida hacia ese único objetivo que cuando se disipa entre una gran variedad de cosas.