Quotes About Clarity

She becomes the voice of reason when there is none

An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense.

I wonder if I am too close to even see what is written on them. This close, everything is just a blurry mess.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules

what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

APERT  (APE'RT)   adj.[apertus, Lat.]Open.

The existence of the twilight does not mean we cannot distinguish the day from the night.

His comprehension is vast, his memory capacious and retentive, his discourse is methodical, and his expression clear.

It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. 'Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.' A

ABLEPSY  (A'BLEPSY)   n.s.[   Gr.] Want of sight, natural blindness; also unadvisedness.Dict.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in the morning, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Truth is truth, my dear!

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

An artist who is inspired is being obvious.

last to know, but he usually wants to know." "Knowing wouldn't have made a difference

None of us wants to see the truth of what is right in front of us, do they? But for our protection, we must not sugar-coat the truth. We must have the courage to see people for what they are.

I like things to be clearly defined. Trouble brews when the lines are blurred. When people don't know where they stand.

Y sin él, yo no entendía para qué me despertaba por las mañanas.