Clearness Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
— Jim Harrison
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character…
— Jean Paul
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
— Jim Rohn
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My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us,…
— John Woolman
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It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness…
— Raymond Chandler
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I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
— John Steinbeck
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God,…
— Amy Carmichael
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The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,…
— Anais Nin
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In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have;…
— George MacDonald
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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