Quotes About Clarity

I began to intuit dimly why people drank when they went dancing, and it occurred to me that maybe the reason preschool had felt the way it had was that one had had to go through the whole thing sober.

One morning, on my way to a lecture on Balzac, it came to me with great clarity that there was no way that that guy, the professor, was going to tell me anything useful. No doubt he knew many useful things, but he wasn't going to say them; rather, he was going to tell us again that Balzac's Paris was extremely comprehensive. I went instead to the undergraduate library, to the basement where government documents were stored.

Essays can be such a pain! Basically, the reader isn't on your side, so you can't leave out any of the logical steps. And sometimes when a connection is delicate, the steps take too long to spell out–it just isn't possible, by the time you get to the end of the steps, the mood is lost.

The world looked particularly crisp and etched-out in the sunlight.

Youth is a clearer witness to the world.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

The less you know, the better you sleep.

In short, the persons we see most clearly are not necessarily those we know best.

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.

Airy elaboration just loses everyone in a fog of words.

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Parfois monter un escalier est la seule façon de savoir où il mène.

What is not clear is not French.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.