Quotes About Clarity

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

People are often unaware of their own unawareness

Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are required to use specific definitions of each trait in their judgments.27

Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf man observing people listening to music. You say 'What are they regarding? Nothing is there.' But something is.

Let there be truth at last,/ Even if despair.

Clare knew that she loved him—every curve of her form showed that—but he did not know at that time the full depth of her devotion, its single-mindedness, its meekness; what long-suffering it guaranteed, what honesty, what endurance, what good faith.

At these the fellow-passengers laughed, except the solitary boy bearing the key and ticket, who, regarding the kitten with his saucer eyes, seemed mutely to say: All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

the more emphatic the renunciation, the less absolute its character.

Do not say 'Thanks.'" A fractional turn of his head was enough to dash his annoyance like a glass thrown into the fireplace. "I say what I mean," Starling said. "Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true." She raised her glass beneath her level prairie gaze, taking back nothing.

Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.

I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true.

He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV?

ThÆ°Æ¡ng thay nh?ng k? om sòm ?i tìm ng?n lá»­a thiêu mòn th? gian L?i không hi?u ???c cho tròn CÆ¡n s?t g?y mòn là ng?n lá»­a kia ?

time who was committing the crimes. I pushed to find out, to see what came before and what came after. I went through the home, the crime scene, in the dark with Will and could see no more and no less than he could see. Sometimes at night I would leave the lights on in my little house and walk across the flat fields. When I looked back from a distance, the house

In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.

The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

the understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled

how extremely stupid not to have thought of that

Even at this stage of life, I don't

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

A habilidade mais valiosa é aquela de jamais usar duas palavras quando uma apenas basta.

No te mates, Clara —dijo—. Si lo haces, nunca sabrás el final.

On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected with astonishment and pity on the madness of the multitude.