Quotes About Clarity

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

You can't handle the truth!

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

To understand the truth is to do the truth.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

the truth is often a mixed message

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.