Quotes about Clarity

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look...the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.

If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

I'm not going to help you pretend—by arguing with you—that the reality you're talking about is not what it is, that there's still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn't.

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

The feeblest imbecile should be able to see the glaring contradictions in every one of your statements." "Let us put it this way, Dr. Stadler. The man who doesn't see that, deserves to believe all my statements.

knew policy; I knew how to consume and process information. It took a while to figure out that my problem wasn't a lack of a ten-point plan. Rather, it was my general inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story that helped explain an increasingly uncertain world to the American people and make them feel that I, as president, could help them navigate it.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.

Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. 

I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair , the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.