Simplest Quotes · Page 6

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

— Noam Chomsky

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

— Randy Pausch

The simplest things to see are the things we are most blind to.

— Milliton MUNNEY

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

— Kaitlin Olson

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

— Biz Stone

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

— Arthur Eddington

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

— Virginia Postrel

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

— Mooji

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or…

— Claire Messud

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible…

— Mark Millar

The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your…

— Allan Pease

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing…

— Rupert Sheldrake

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always…

— Agatha Christie

Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even…

— Andy Andrews

Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine…

— Arlene Francis

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to…

— Lucian Freud

In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual…

— Erwin Schrodinger

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This…

— Stephen Hawking

And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at…

— Pope John Paul II

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The…

— Horace Greeley

Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the…

— Frederic Bastiat

I always think about the simplest things in a relationship that have frustrated me. It always sort of comes down to communication.…

— Mandy Moore

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons…

— David Fairchild

Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,…

— C. D. Innes

I'll be a wreck for the simplest things in life, and just not affected by cool things.

— Tate McRae

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

— John Erskine

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

— Stephen King

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

— Jacques Barzun

Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys.

— Robin Sharma

Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.

— Richard Jeni

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

— Paul Gauguin

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

— Phillips Brooks

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

— Hugh Kingsmill

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sometimes complex questions of life have simplest of answers.

— Anonymous

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

— Philip Gerard

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

— Andre Breton

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

— Mark Nepo