Quotes about Clarity
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
- Confucius
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
- Robert Frost
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
- Joseph Campbell
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Never confuse movement with action.
- Ernest Hemingway
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
- Ernest Hemingway
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
- Etty Hillesum
I can't really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.
- Etty Hillesum
Lord, give me wisdom, not knowledge. Or rather the knowledge that leads to wisdom and true happiness and not the kind that leads to power.
- Etty Hillesum
Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work.
- Eugene Peterson
Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.
- Eugene Peterson
You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.
- Eugene Peterson