Simplicity Quotes

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Simplify always - do not complicate. — Emile Coue
The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with. — Deepak Chopra
There is a majesty in simplicity. — Alexander Pope
You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff. — Wayne Dyer
The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich. — Duane Elgin
To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned. — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
All the great things are simple. — Winston Churchill
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. — William Wordsworth
We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should… — William James
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. — William Cowper
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all… — Thomas Sydenham
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. — Thomas Gray
Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his… — Robert Burns
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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