#Clarity Quotes

“More matter with less art.”

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

“Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.”

“All difficulties are easy when they are known.”

“My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.”

“Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.”

“The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.”

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.”

“Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.”

“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

“A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.”

“Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.”

“Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.”

“To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.”

“You must ask for what you really want.”

“It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.”

“Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.”

“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”

“You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have”

“Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.”

“If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.”

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

“It is better to have no ideas than false ones.”

“Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”

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

“The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.”

“The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.”

“Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.”

“Hammer your thoughts into unity.”

“Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.”

“One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.”

“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.”

“The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.”

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”

“Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.”

“I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.”

“A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.”

“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”

“Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.”

“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”

“When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.”

“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.”

“I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.”

“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”

“There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.”

“How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.”

“Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.”

“Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.”

“Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.”

“I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.”