He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms. — Galen Copy Share Image
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
