Quotes About Clarity

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Confucious said, To know what we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what—how—when—where? But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face, and no question on her lips. I awoke to an answered question, to Nature and daylight.

We must look for a long time before we can see.

Being is the great explainer.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live.

Our life is frittered away by detail.

What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.

One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

Say what you have to say, not what you ought.