Quotes About Clarity

Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.

Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.