Simple Truths Quotes

67 quotes by 63 authors

Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we… — Amy Poehler
Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. — Luc de Clapiers
Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet… — Frederick Lenz
The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent… — Brenna Yovanoff
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is… — Marvin Minsky
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. — Mason Cooley
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. — Charles Dickens
'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is… — Henri Nouwen
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. — James Thurber
There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other… — Ian Mcewan
It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple… — Ian Mcewan
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and… — Melody Beattie
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't… — Nicholas Sparks
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel… — Brandon Sanderson
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find… — John Barth
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... — Nicholas Sparks
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful? — John Green
Heâ€™s gone, Harry told himself. Heâ€™s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Itâ€™s a simple truth that a secret is something youâ€™re ashamed of. — Deb Caletti

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