Quotes About Clarity

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

Man's best candle is his understanding.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

If a thing goes without saying -- let it.