Quotes About Clarity

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Am I a god? I see so clearly!

Wisdom is found only in truth.

More light! Give me more light!

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We would not say very much in company if we realized how often we misunderstand what others say.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.

Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunklen Drange Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.

Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason.

O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen! Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man, und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen.

Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.