Quotes about Clarity
Corporate worship is to be intelligible.
- Mark Driscoll
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
- Mark Twain
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous." (VII)
- Aristotle
whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
- Aristotle
The simplest solution is always best.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different
- Arthur Conan Doyle
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
His conclusions were as infallible as so many propositions of Euclid. So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.
- Arthur Conan Doyle