Clarity Quote by Horace Walpole Download Open image “When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.” — Horace Walpole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clarity Garden Gardening Mind Nettles People Psychology Weed
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire. — Nahum Tate Copy Share Image
“A wrong mind-set is like bad soil that restricts a plant’s growth. Similarly, limiting beliefs about ‘what we deserve’ hinder our growth. They stop… — Hina Hashmi Copy Share Image
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!! — Laylablack Copy Share Image
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image