Quotes About Clarity

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." ~ Mark Twain

Don't use fancy words to make things sound better than they are or try to impress people. Build your breakthrough objectives using straight, clear, everyday language that your employees will understand.

You will not be able to pray purely if you are all involved with material affairs and agitated with unremitting concerns. For prayer is the rejection of concepts." — Evagrius Ponticus

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Because it's getting to be the blue hour, and that's the time when everything is revealed.

What's needed in this next campaign is to say, with clarity, why a pro-individual-liberty, small-government perspective is what most Americans really want.

Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act. The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.

Language is the light of the mind.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.

is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself.