Quotes About Clarity

When you make sense, you say what you believe and therefore mean what you say and therefore act in accordance with it and therefore you are who you seem to be.

the very fact that the mind can be deceived implies that it can be not deceived, that it can know things rightly—deep things—beauty, truth—just as they are.

Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination

The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.

To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.

When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn't. We just can't see the whole picture.

There's a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.

Don't overthink it. Just write.

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos.

You have to be able to compartmentalize all that. Your problem is you only have one compartment.

But to paraphrase the Supreme Court's statement about obscenity, when it comes to patterns, I know them when I see them.

I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

If an English writer cannot say what he has to say in English, and in simple English, depend upon it, it is probably not worth saying

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire,' proclaimed Churchill defending the partisanship of the British Gazette in a Commons debate on the Strike on 7 July. 'When you are in a great difficulty and in a fight of this kind, however unfortunate it may be, it is absolutely no use people pretending they do not know what side they are on.

He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, "Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68

the message 'Stay put' which would be sent out by the Ministry of Information in the event of a German invasion. 'First of all, it is American slang; secondly, it does not express the fact. The people have not been "put" anywhere. What is the matter with "Stand fast", or "Stand firm"? Of the two I prefer the latter.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time.

Enough talk. Now this ends."" That was my signal to dodge. I was always grateful to enemies that telegraphed their attacks.

minimal conflict. Keras had told me that light also helped improve mental speed and clarity, implying some overlap with mental mana as well.

Is...Teft complimenting us? Wait, no, I'm not part of the group that is going. Everything makes sense again.