Simpler Quotes
331 quotes by 297 authors
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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had…
— Oscar Wilde
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If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all…
— John G. Kemeny
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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.
— Paul LePaul
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The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless…
— Glenn T. Seaborg
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Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.
— Stephen Hawking
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How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of…
— Daphne Merkin
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The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's…
— Paddy Johnson
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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they…
— Angus Young
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Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into…
— Steven James
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The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and…
— Mark Buchanan
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Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have…
— Peter Cundill
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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
— Seth Godin
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the…
— Albert Einstein
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Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
— Rumi
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With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler
— Peter Gizzi
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A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a…
— James Keller
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