Quotes About Clarity

But disillusion is a healthy thing. It leads to reality.

No hay forma de expresar determinadas cuestiones, y otras son tan complejas que un hombre languidece y muere antes de encontrar las palabras adecuadas.

When men are to be led it is rarely wise to discuss policy or tactics with them. Most men work best when they know only what is expected of them. Then they can't get confused and they do not get ideas of how to do things better.

Ni jedan život ne te?e tako jednoliko i blago da ne bi jednom udario na nasip, da se jednom ne bi po?eo vrtjeti u krugu ili da mu ljudi ne bi po?eli bacati kamenje u bistru vodu. Svakome se, dakle, nešto doga?a - i moramo nastojati da nam voda ostane bistra kako bi se nebo i zemlja mogli u njoj ogledati.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.

discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

I've always been of the opinion that if people could just bring themselves to say "I don't know" when they don't know, we'd all live longer and have to listen to a whole lot less bullshit. But that's not how people are. People hate to say "I don't know." They'll speculate, gesticulate, and just plain make up shit to avoid saying the words out loud.

I sat staring at the carpet for the longest time, trying to put everything I'd learned into some sort of meaningful order, but it was like reading late at night, where three minutes in you realize you've read the same paragraph six times and still don't have any idea what it's about.

The obscurity of the external world is a function of my own obscurity to myself; the world has no intrinsic obscurity. Should we say that it comes to the same thing in the end? We must ask up to what point this interior opacity is a result; is it not very largely the consequence of an act? and is not this act simply sin?

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

Once you get yourself out of the way, you can see everything the way it is. Your self isn't blocking the world from you, once you have sidestepped its shadow.

Let thy good spirit enter my heart and there be heard without utterance, and without the sound of words speak all truth.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

All truths are easy to understand once you find them, the point is to discover them

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it's our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.

No one wants to have 300 channels on your wireless device.