Quotes about Clarity
What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.
— Robert Brault
Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.
— Robert Brault
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
— Robert Brault
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...."
— Robert Brault
What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.
— Robert Brault
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
— LM Montgomery
There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
— LM Montgomery
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
— LM Montgomery
Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.
— LM Montgomery
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
— John Keats
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
— Herman Melville
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
— George Bernard Shaw