Clearer Quotes

244 Clearer quotes by 209 unique authors

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to… — Margaret Atwood
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a… — Alberto Manguel
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with… — Abraham Lincoln
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the… — Sonia Sanchez
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into… — Edith Wharton
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear… — Elwyn Brooks White
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character… — Philip Pullman
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer — Jacqueline Carey
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further… — Thomas Merton
I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You… — Michael Jackson
Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said… — Susan Cooper
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is… — C.S. Lewis
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and… — William Butler Yeats
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and… — Charles Dickens
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.… — Mahatma Gandhi
sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after… — Hayley Williams
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. — Patrick O'Brian
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such… — Henry Ward Beecher
Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were… — J R Ward
He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the… — Khalil Gibran
It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if… — Zadie Smith
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution… — Richard Dawkins

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