Quotes About Clarity

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

Make it a simple formula for your life.

Believer me, life can be much simpler. And you'll discover an energy for the things in life that really matter.

Once your heart is is order, the rest will unfold more easily.

Plan your action, keep it simple, and get into motion.

The thought beneath so slight a film—Is more distinctly seen—As laces just reveal the surge—Or Mists—the Apennine—

In their desire to make their point, presenters miss the point.

Having clear decision rules saves heartburn later.

But much argument is not required to guide the public, still less a formal exposition of that argument. What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of clear conclusions; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way (and if with a few light and humorous illustrations, so much the better), he has done his part.

Cautious men have many adverbs, "usually," "nearly," "almost ": safe men begin, " it may be advanced " : you never know precisely what their premises are, nor what their conclusion is; they go tremulously like a timid rider; they turn hither and thither; they do not go straight across a subject, like a masterly mind.

To exert itself, the will, like the arm, requires to have an obvious and a definite resistance, to know where it is, why it is, whence it comes, and whither it goes.

It will not answer to explain what all the things which you describe are not. You must begin by saying what they are.

Space has failed us, and we must be unmeaningly brief.

A double error sometimes sets us right.

I pulled her to her feet. But, naked as I was, and holding her against me, I realized that I did not really feel for her what I had felt for Madeleine, whom I knew I did not love, several hours before. I felt a terrible constriction. It felt, I think, like death. I loved Barbara. I knew it then, and I really know it now; but what, I asked myself, was I to do with her?

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford.

The fact is, of course, that the metaphysician wants to re-think the universe; the plain man does not. The metaphysician seeks for an inclusive system where all reality can be rationally housed. The plain man is less ambitious. He is content with the kind of knowledge he possesses about men and things—so far as it goes. Science has already told him much; each day it tells him more. And, within the clearing thus made for him in the tangled wilderness of the unknown, he feels at home.

Who is right? How do we know? Where is the answer written? Perhaps it's not written anywhere ... or perhaps it is written all around us, in letters so big that we can't see them! Imagine that, we could be walking on a world where the answer is all around us, and we can't even see it!

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Peró Abrines aviat es consolava: Mallorca i la vida, les dues tan sòlides, ¿no consistien, davant la novetat, més a rebutjar sense aclarir que no a acceptar després d'escoltar?

The higher thy flight the less canst thou see the abysses. There are none in heaven.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.