Clarity Quotes

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

Isaac Newton

"Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."

Claude Adrien Helvétius

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."

Francis Bacon

"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him."

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

George Orwell

"A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved."

Charles Kettering

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Harold Abelson

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

Martin Fowler

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly."

"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."

Louis A. Berman

“Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.”

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

Theodore Hesburgh

“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.”

J. K. Rowling

“If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.”

Ayrton Senna

"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear."

Ayrton Senna

"Good writing is clear thinking made visible."

Bill Wheeler

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

Hans Hofmann

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time, a tremendous whack.”

“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

George Orwell

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Albert Einstein

“Use plain discourse.”

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.”

Chinese Proverb

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”

Ansel Adams