Quotes About Clarity

La realtà intorno a lui diventava così irreale, come lo è sempre nelle sue concrezioni più reali.

There were too many things suddenly that I didn't understand, and I didn't know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that's not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.

Again he picked up a stone and kept rolling it in his hands. His hands were damp with mounting excitement. What was it that everyone in the world knew but he? There was something grave and black being kept from him, and he could feel how important it was, how imminent, and he was desperate to know.

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.

Uno sa sempre qual e' la sua decisione prima ancora di averla presa. In realta', lo sa fin dall'inizio. Ecco perche' i consigli non servono a niente.

La poesía sirve sobre todo para complicar las cosas, ¿no? Pero igual complicándolas se entienden mejor. Y al entenderlas se simplifican.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

I am not angry with anybody. But when I am alone it seems to me that I can see my friends in a clearer and rosier light than when I am with them; and when I loved and felt music best I lived far from it. It would seem that I must have distant perspectives in order that I may think well of things.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

I obviously do everything to be hard to understand myself

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp.

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable