Clarity Quote by Samuel Johnson

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“This interest in reflections, fictions, dreams, thoughts, images, is the basic reason why man cannot know himself. He is not interested at all in…

— Osho

It is fit for a man to know his own abilities and weaknesses, and not think himself obliged to imitate all that he thinks…

— Robert Boyle

“381 On the question of being understandable.— One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his…

— Otto Weininger

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,…

— Frederick Douglass