Quotes About Clarity

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

It is a luxury to be understood.

To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of truth is cold.

We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.

The world we live in is but thickened light.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

As the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all things in their right series and procession.

Follow the quiet voice within you that is telling you where to go.

and beauty and goodness comes to each man directly, in flashes of spiritual light

Lo que haces resuena con tal fuerza por encima de tu cabeza, que no me deja oír lo que dices.