Quotes about Clarity

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

But how should I know whether they were boys or girls?" "Goodness sakes, mars Clay, don't de Good Book say? 'Sides, don't it call 'em de HE-brew chil'en? If dey was gals wouldn't dey be de SHE-brew chil'en? Some people dat kin read don't 'pear to take no notice when dey do read.

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

No invisibles, sino inadvertidas, Watson. No sabÃ

Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.