I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John RuskinThe shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest HemingwaySome sarcasm is best told simply.
Kevin HartIt’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark TwainNo problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
VoltairePride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
Joyce MeyerThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesI have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
PlatoSmall is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert EinsteinStates are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PlatoExpect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice WalkerIt amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
David BowieThe intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry PratchettEvery formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma GandhiDo not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David ThoreauIt may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch SpinozaWomen. They are a complete mystery.
Stephen Hawking‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?
George CarlinA man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. LewisThe intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Bill GatesTo me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce LeeLet not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma GandhiHistory is more or less bunk.
Henry FordRead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireThe story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodThe moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard ShawI am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
George H. W. BushTo insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert CamusFishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert HooverI felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
Taylor SwiftI’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.
Karl LagerfeldThere are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
Taylor SwiftBehold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeIt is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry AdamsLet’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. MenckenThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert EinsteinUnderstand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.
Robert GreeneMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand RussellGenius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles BukowskiSimplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauI could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.
Bruno MarsIt pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac AsimovHappy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander PopeJudge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
VoltaireSome minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
Elizabeth KennyIn dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao TzuTo hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.
Robert GreeneThere is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
Pope FrancisMany people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellHe didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John LennonPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch SpinozaThe biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
Bob UeckerA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas SowellWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert EinsteinThe greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.
Baruch SpinozaTheories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea BallouIt’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.
George W. BushPeople are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal