Quotes About Clarity

A hundred things may be explained, a thousand told, But one thing only should you grasp. Know one thing and everything is freed – Remain within your inner nature, your awareness!

Once you realize it's a 'them or us' situation, though," Southwick said conversationally, "it's surprising how you see it all in a different light.

When every answer and its opposite appears equally obvious, then, as Lazarsfeld put it, "something is wrong with the entire argument of 'obviousness.' "5

I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it.

Reader, if thou to credit what is here Art slow, 'tis no surprise, since I can scarce Believe, who saw it all as clear as clear.

We can all read a book and still not understand it.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

But as Mark Twain once observed, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is as the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. So do strive for that right word!

Broadly speaking, the thing you need to avoid is the general as contrasted with the particular (reptile creates a less vivid image than does rattler); the vague as contrasted with the definite (them guys is less meaningful than those three hoods who hang out at Sammy's poolroom); and the abstract as contrasted with the concrete (to say that something is red tells me less than to state that it's exactly the color of the local fire truck).

Thus, to orient means to point somebody in the right direction. In story, that somebody is the reader.

The lesson here is, don't try to cram too much into one sentence; and the issue lies less in length than it does in content. Any time you feel the need to explain some aspect of your basic sentence, take pause. Odds are that what's bothering you really calls for an additional sentence or two or three, so that you can keep your developing line of thought straight and clear and simple.

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order.

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

Life can only be understood backwards.

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right."

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.