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

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.”

Italo Svevo book Zeno's Conscience

“I swear by God, the Peerless, the Incomparable, the True One: for no other reason hath He — the supreme Testimony of God — invested Me with clear signs and tokens than that all men may be enabled to submit to His Cause.”

Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith

“Punctuation, is? fun!”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

“If we show or tell someone a truth about ourselves, it will cause them to become more clear about their truth. We have to develop the capacity to make room for both truths.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“I did speak extensively — often quite critically — about the reviled work of Richard Goldschmidt, particularly about aspects of his thought that might merit a rehearing. This material has often been confused with punctuated equlibrium by people who miss the crucial issue of scaling, and therefore regard all statements about rapidity at any level as necessarily unitary, and necessarily flowing from punctuated equilibrium. In fact, as the long treatment in Chapter 5 of this book should make clear, my interest in Goldschmidt resides in issues bearing little relationship with punctuated equilibrium, but invested instead in developmental questions that prompted my first book, Ontogeny and Phylogeny. The two subjects, after all, are quite separate, and rooted in different scales of rapidity — hopeful monsters in genuine saltation, and punctuated equilibrium in macroevolutionary punctuation”

Stephen Jay Gould book The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

“He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.”

Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist

“On this third planet from the sun
among the signs of bestiality
a clear conscience is Number One.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer