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  • Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

    Light   Sight   Over You  
  • Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.

    Confused   Errors   Space  
    Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.
  • We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

    Friendship   Hate   Real  
  • Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

  • He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

    Discovery   Water   Mind  
    Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke (fict. name.) (1862). “Alton Locke”, p.21
  • Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

    Common   Mist   Walks  
    George Eliot (189?). “The Spanish gypsy”
  • The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

    Merit   Language   Chiefs  
    Galen (1916). “Galen On the Natural Faculties”
  • I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

    Believe   Add   Littles  
    Frank Lloyd Wright (2012). “Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909)”, p.7, Courier Corporation
  • Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  • In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight.

    Wise   Eye   Men  
    George MacDonald (1883). “The Imagination, and Other Essays”
  • The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

    Lying   Successful   Men  
  • The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

    Regret   Men   Perfect  
  • We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.179
  • Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

    John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.77
  • Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 596-97), Pensées Diverses, No. 372. Gilbert's ed. (1857), Volume I, p. 475, 1922.
  • I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend

  • I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

    Believe   Love Is   Light  
  • The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.

    Neglect   Force   Equal  
    William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the results of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.

    Morning   Pain   Believe  
    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.286, Penguin
  • Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

    Crazy   Fall   Voice  
    "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.
  • In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books
  • The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

    Law   Form   Shows  
    John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.7
  • Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

  • We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

    Wisdom   Ideas   Humanity  
    "The Inferno". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1917.
  • An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street." This clearness and ease of comprehension, here insisted on for a mathematical theory, I should still more demand for a mathematical problem if it is to be perfect; for what is clear and easily comprehended attracts, the complicated repels us.

    Men   Perfect   Ease  
    "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.
  • It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

    Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.187
  • Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

    Giving   Soul   Firmness  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.349, Ravenio Books
  • He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

    Beauty   Perfect   Style  
    Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
  • Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

    Life   Guilty   Feels  
    "George Zimmerman accuses Obama of inflaming racial tensions" by Jethro Mullen, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.
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