Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

Clarity precedes success.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.