Clarity

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself - John Searle

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognise its imperfection and natural weakness - Michel de Montaigne

There are no knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns, that is to say there are things we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know." He also noted that "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"! - Donald Rumsfeld, from Harper's Weekly Review, June 18, 2002)

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane - Nicola Tesla

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 spurting out ink - George Orwell

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 spurting out ink - George Orwell

The essence of all ethics is to be clear - to be lucid - Albert Camus

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. Success in circuit lies - Emily Dickinson

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlet - Isaac Asimov (1920-92), Russian-born American scientist, writer

If one person in a relationship goes on a personal journey it can easily create tension and misalignment. When we are challenging ourselves to be authentic this is an unacceptable situation and we must do what we can to bring clarity to the relationship - Neil Crofts