Simple Quotes
6037 quotes by 3894 authors
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Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
— Joseph Addison
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Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.
— Hal Borland
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The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in…
— Eugene Delacroix
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The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable -…
— Artur Schnabel
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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
— C W Ceram
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Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
— Wilbert J. McKeachie
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Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
— Rudyard Kipling
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While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given…
— Erich Fromm
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By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of…
— Colin Fletcher
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The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
— Grady Booch
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It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live…
— Annie Laurie Gaylor
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was…
— Rahul Dravid
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It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.
— Jack Valenti
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Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
— Susan Sontag
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I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would…
— Richard G. Scott
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I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the…
— Richard G. Scott
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Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you…
— Rajneesh
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Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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