Quotes About Clarity

What did you do. Hopkins, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing?

Die Welt ist voller offensichtlicher Dinge, die niemand jemals beobachtet.

Es una equivocación garrafal elaborar teorías antes de disponer de todos los elementos de juicio, porque así es como éste se tuerse en un determinado sentido.

When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation. (Sherlock)

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

Tuve la súbita intuición de que nada en la vida es tan simple como imaginamos.

There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it.

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

Complexity of thought is no measure of originality.

He who becomes dizzy is lost.

And yet if it be sometimes necessary to conceal facts with words, then it should be done in such manner that it shall not appear; or should it be observed, then a defense should be promptly ready. Niccolò Machiavelli, "Confidential Instructions" to Raffaello Girolami (trans. C. Detmold) But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Matthew 5:37 1.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...

I don't know what the future is. I don't know-what I'm supposed to want.

John – tell me, are we lost?

We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.

I stopped middle of that I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two.

he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two. The term unhappiness referred to the feeling of taking the wrong things seriously.

He would tell himself he had momentarily gone mad and forgotten why he existed. Do not forget again and you will never feel so lost again, he would remind himself, confident in his memory's ability to be permanently fixed.

John understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two. The term unhappiness referred to the feeling, of taking the wrong things seriously.