Quotes About Clarity

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.

God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.