Clearness Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
— Benjamin Franklin
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.…
— Charles Dickens
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
— Hippocrates
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger…
— John Stuart Mill
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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
— John Gresham Machen
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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the…
— Augustus William Hare
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There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of…
— Justus von Liebig
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Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at…
— Harry Gordon Selfridge
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to…
— Rene Descartes
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
— William Shakespeare
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for…
— Benjamin Franklin
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect…
— Arthur Symons
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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
— Tryon Edwards
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
— Victor Hugo
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Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth.…
— Isak Dinesen
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I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Who Wrote These Clearness Quotes
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