Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.
As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.
I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.
It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.
He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
