"If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair,……" — George Santayana

More Clearness Quotes

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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
• The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and… — Benjamin Franklin
• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,… — Charles Dickens
• The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of… — Hippocrates
• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning… — 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… — Augustus William Hare
• There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains… — Justus von Liebig
• Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I… — Harry Gordon Selfridge
• Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it… — Rene Descartes
• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare

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