Napoleon Hill Quotes

Clarity breeds mastery.

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

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Facts are often complicated.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.