Clearness Quotes

41 Clearness quotes by 37 unique authors

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin
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
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates
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
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend — John Gresham Machen
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
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
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
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
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery. — Victor Hugo
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
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
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices… — Georges Bizet
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost… — Charles Kingsley
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters. — George Santayana
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when… — Edmund Burke

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