Expressing Ideas Clearly Quotes

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

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

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

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

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.