Quotes about Clarity

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

But how should I know whether they were boys or girls?" "Goodness sakes, mars Clay, don't de Good Book say? 'Sides, don't it call 'em de HE-brew chil'en? If dey was gals wouldn't dey be de SHE-brew chil'en? Some people dat kin read don't 'pear to take no notice when dey do read.

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.