Quotes About Clarity

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The Lord said, 'Look unto me in every thought' (D&C 6:36). Looking unto the Lord every thought is the only possible way we can be the manner of men and women we ought to be

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light so that we can see the way. More important, so that we can look at ourselves, as well as others, and know how similar we are to the herd.

According to Fuller, laws should be (1) general, (2) publicly promulgated, (3) prospective (i.e., not retroactive), (4) clear, (5) consistent (i.e., not contain any contradictions), (6) practicable (i.e., not demand the impossible), (7) constant over time, and (8) congruent with the actions of officials. If we accept that list as defining the rule of law, America's departures from it will be apparent to readers of this book.

Fuller's procedural categories provide an inadequate definition of the rule of law. A legal regime might offer generality, publicity, clarity, consistency, constancy over time, and congruency with regulators, and still be a legal system from Hell. It might weaken property rights and impose civil liability on the flimsiest of grounds, all the while conforming to Fuller's idea of law.

Technocrats are guys whom, when you ask them a question and when they have finished answering, you don't understand the question you asked any more! (Michel Colucci known as Coluche)

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

compos mentis.

In many cases the problem does not lie with someone paying too much attention to the dark side of things, it is actually due to our overemphasis on bright and positive things — sometimes that brightness can be so blinding that it damages our ability to see things clearly.

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Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.

the central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill.

veces es preferible afrontar la peor de las certezas que estar condenado a una incertidumbre perpetua. Todas

A veces es preferible afrontar la peor de las certezas que estar condenado a una incertidumbre perpetua.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

No se siente la verdad cuando está dentro de una misma.

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.' 'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?

Psychologically, setting aside its expression in words, our thought is simply a vague, shapeless mass.

Con cada risotada expelo un pájaro. Y como yo, la gente que ríe a cualquier hora, en cualquier parcela jubilosa de la Tierra, hace crecer la bandada que puntea con sus trinos y colores la claridad de nuestros días.

Questions like "Where am I headed?" and "Is this the place I want to be headed?" aren't central in your consciousness. Where are you headed, then? The answer is simple: you're headed where you're headed, as fast as you can get there.