Clearness Quote by Hippocrates

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

— Hippocrates

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

— Galen

The chief merit of language is clearness.

— Galen

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

— George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

— George Orwell

In language clarity is everything.

— Confucius

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it…

— George Orwell

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

— Ron Jeffries