Clarity Quotes
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl von Clausewitz, in A Reader in International Relations and Political Theory, p.150 
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More Clarity Quotes
Perhaps his greatest intellectual virtue was his unremitting adherence to clarity and to rational argument. His work is without allusions ...
— Alfred Jules Ayer, in A. J. Ayer's Philosophy And Its Greatness
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
— Fernando J. Corbató, in Computers, Ethics, and Social Values, p.430
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion .
— Rene Daumal, in East Asian Labor and Employment Law: International and Comparative Context, p.237
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.
— Leonid Feodorov, in Exarch Leonid Feodorov: Bridgebuilder Between Rome and Moscow, p.181
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
— Vincent van Gogh, in The Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for ..., p.12
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness .
— Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in I Don't Want to Go to Church!: Practical Ways to Deal with Kids and Religion ..., p.5
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision .
— Aldous Huxley, in Fanatically Formative: Successful Learning During the Crucial K?3 Years, p.113
Simplicity, clarity, singleness, these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
— Richard Holloway, in God's Priorities for Your Life for Teens, p.307
Natural, reckless, correct skill; yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity. The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change. One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.
— Ikky?, in deep kyoto good places – good people: Ikkyu
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
— Joseph Joubert, in The Bloomsbury Review, Volume 5, Parts 3-6, p.125
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your motive in following, your motive is a reward .
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, in This Light in Oneself: True Meditation, p.18
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, in Broaden the Path, p.178
Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity.
— John Macquarie, in Methods in the Madness: Diversity in Twentieth-Century Christian Social Ethics, p.266
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
Blaise Pascal— Lives That Made a Difference, p.78
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.
— Blaise Pascal, in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, p.544
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
— Jules Renard, in Unmasking Your Future: Tools for Creating Your Best Life, p.14
There their naked understanding is in penetrated with eternal clarity as the air is penetrated by the light of the sun .
— John Ruysbroeck, in Opera Omnia, p.144
A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers .
— Leó Szilárd, in BUlletin of the Atomic Scientists Feb 1979, p.38
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .
— Robert Charles Wilson, in Spin, p.92
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
— William Zinsser, in Writing to Clients and Referring Professionals about Psychological .., p.164
The diamond-like clarity of the materials can only have come from being written by someone deeply inspired at the time and being later polished with care.
— Quoted in "Discovering the Heart of Buddhism What are the teachings?"
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
— In Shubnell's Profound Thoughts, Book 1, p.66
