Quotes about Clarity

for me to help him," said Dorothea, ardently. "You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have a letter for you in my pocket." Mr. Brooke handed the letter to Dorothea, but as she rose to go away, he added, "There is not too much

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

We read, indeed, that the walls of Jericho fell down before the sound of trumpets,39 but we nowhere hear that those trumpets were hoarse and feeble. Doubtless they were trumpets that gave forth clear ringing tones, and sent a mighty vibration through brick and mortar. But the oratory of the Rev. Amos resembled rather a Belgian railway-horn, which shows praiseworthy intentions inadequately fulfilled.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Take up, read! Take up, read!

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.