Clear Quotes

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. (Albert Camus)
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. View quote
Woody Allen
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. View quote
Carl Jung
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. View quote
Euripides
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. View quote
Horace Mann
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it. View quote
Anne Hutchinson
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. View quote
James Thurber
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. View quote
Blaise Pascal
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said. View quote
Alan Greenspan
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. View quote
Livy
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. View quote
Ann Coulter
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 were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. (George Orwell)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. View quote
John Muir
It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there. View quote
Heath Ledger
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. View quote
Anne Brontë