Quotes About Clarity

Speak so that I can understand you.

Why complicate your life when it did not need complicating, when you had a choice?

Alcohol buoyed you up and it washed your eyes clean.

But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it.

A Foundational system serves not so much to prop up the house of mathematics as to clarify the principles and methods by which the house was built in the first place.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong pace, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Nobody knew what that sort of blather meant in the Sixties and nobody knows now.

Chaos serves no social end.

I don't have all the answers. (...) Let me be really clear about that.

Sometimes it is good and sometimes it is dangerous like the ignorance of particulars, but our words are clear and our movements give off light.

When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say what is in your mind; never hesitate a moment.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Battle against obscurity

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence... We make our discoveries while in the state because then we are clear-sighted.

You can get so that every step, every little obstacle on the battlefield, becomes so big that you can't see much past it, and when you do get past, it's sometimes hard to remember what the hell you were supposed to be doing.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

As Max DePree, former CEO of furniture maker Herman Miller, put it, "The first job of a leader is to define reality.