Clear Thinking Quotes

• Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

  Thomas Szasz

  Courage, Thinking, Clear

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Honesty, Thinking

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• Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Thinking, Clear

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Healing is the result of clear thinking.

  Ernest Holmes

  Healing, Health, Thinking

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “The Science of the Mind”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Heart, Perspective, Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2014

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• Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

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• In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Imagination, Solitude

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• Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Made

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• Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Creativity, Thinking, Design

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• Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thinking, Acting, Fuzzy

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• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

  Carroll Smith

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sweet, Writing, Simple

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• These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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  Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Thinking Of You, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 08, 2014

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• Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Pride, Thinking

  "Saiva Siddhanta" by Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volume 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.

  Anne Bishop

  Hard Work, Recovery, Thinking

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• In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

  Grace Jones

  Fun, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Conviction, Clear

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.

  Haile Selassie

  Thinking, Mind, Spirit

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• When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

  Cyril Connolly

  Animal, Thinking, Literature

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• Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Stupidity

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• Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Opportunity, Long

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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