Quotes About Clarity

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

I promised myself that we'd have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.

After ten years of conflicting feelings, I'm suddenly not conflicted at all.

I'd love to. But I know

But she kept on hoping - really, stupidly hoping - that someone one day would understand what she meant. That one day she'd have a proper conversation with someone instead of just a series of audible misconnections.

It is the plainest and simplest of things that most daunt and confuse us.

He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking...transparent.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

Click here' is not a call to action, because I will only take action with a reason, and clicking is no reason. Remove the 'Click here' from any link, and it will be clearer and more direct. (The only time I ever use 'Click here' is when it is not at all obvious that the target is clickable, which should never really happen.)

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

The power of it was all finally there, finally real for me.

familiar with the "fine print" one received from financial institutions and health-insurance companies; the last thing one was supposed to do with those thousands of words was comprehend them.

From time to time there have to be individuals who deliberately take on the burden of guilt because they see the situation clearer than those who have the power.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

The less you know, the more soundly you sleep.

You're suffering from some serious myopia my friend.

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

Nothing is more difficult than knowing what you really think.

Her eyes were narrowed as if they were endlessly trying to exclude most of what they saw.