Dale Carnegie Quotes

Nothing is confused except the mind.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

There is nothing clever about confusion.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

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

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.