Clear Understanding Quotes

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

All laws are promulgated for this end: that every man may know his duty; and therefore the plainest and most obvious sense of the words is that which must be put upon them.

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

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

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

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

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.

Examine by every means each thing how it is clear, neither putting greater faith in anything seen than in what is heard, nor in a thundering sound more than in the clear assertions of the tongue, nor keep from trusting any of the other members in which there lies means of knowledge, but know each thing in the way in which it is clear.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

Whenever you try to preach something, people will not accept or invite it into their lives. But if it is said in a light way, people understand it better, and it is as true for films as it is for life.

The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.