Quotes About Clarity

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

When you find yourself inclined to brood on anything, no matter what, the best plan always is to think about it even more than you naturally would, until at last its morbid fascination is worn off.

Some of the deepest truths are simple, when seen in the clearest light, and it takes a lucid intellect to grasp them so thoroughly that their simplicity can be brought into that light and offered to all, not just the privileged few.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

First: never use a long word if a short word will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

proper task of philosophy is to remind ourselves of what we already know to be true:

Clarity, above all, has been my aim.

It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times.

Nunca ha estado del todo claro si el secreto de la felicidad consiste en no ser completamente imbécil o en serlo.

These two sentences suffice to show, as I shall try to prove, that Bergson does not know what number is, and has himself no clear idea of it.

No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in the main of internal harmony, the man who achieves it is freer in his contemplation of the world and in the use of his energies to achieve external purposes that is the man who is perpetually hampered by inward conflicts. Nothing is so dull as to be encased in self, nothing so exhilarating as to have attention and energy directed outwards.

Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what had appeared as if in a revelation.

The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding.

Ve yine bence, kaleme al?nd??? ÅŸekliyle, tek bir virgülünü dahi deÄŸiÅŸtirme gereÄŸi olmaks?z?n, Ä°nsan Haklar? Evrensel Bildirisi, ilkelerin doÄŸruluÄŸu ve hedeflerin berrakl??? bak?m?ndan, yeryüzündeki bütün siyasi parti programlar?n?n lay?k?yla yerine geçebilir.

Görülmesi en kolay ÅŸey ne çok büyük, ne çok küçük, ne çok uzak ne çok yak?n, ne çok karma??k, ne ne de çok basit oland?r.

How is it possible to bring order out of memory?

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2

There's something I want to clarify here before we get any further: making it matter doesn't mean making it worth it. Embracing the distinction can be no small relief.

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. 2 Timothy 2:7

I am saying this for your own benefit … so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction. 1 Corinthians 7:35

Every now and then a moment of clarity hits us, and we feel known by something—Someone—of inestimable greatness.