simplicity quotes

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

A 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.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

An honest man is always a child.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

To 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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I love a natural look in pictures.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

God always takes the simplest way.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I 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.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Elegance is refusal.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.