Clarity Quote by Arthur Balfour

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge,…

— Ron Chernow

“clarity is a precious thing, to the degree it can be achieved, if only because it can spare us the effort of needless boring…

— David Bentley Hart

“If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.”

— Eric Hoffer

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

— Robertson Davies

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

— Saadi

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

— Douglas William Jerrold

“If you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything at all.” Silence can be golden. Proverbs”

— Matthew C. Mitchell

“He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The only thing better than great dialogue is the ability to say everything with no dialogue at all.”

— Adam Levenberg

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

— William Shakespeare