Thought Clarity Quotes

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

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

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

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

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

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've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

Isn’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when you’re with some other ones It’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

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

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

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.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.