Quotes about Clarity

Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

Make things as simple as possible but no simpler

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of the power. If there was some different way of writing...Or else something else to write about.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.