Simplicity Quotes

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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,… — Anne Lamott
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. — William Shakespeare
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — Jack Kerouac
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. — Oscar Wilde
As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence,… — Richard Russo
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God… — Robert Louis Stevenson
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a… — Peter Brook
I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort — Clarice Lispector
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy
The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or… — Henry B. Eyring
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. — Randy Pausch
...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. — Alfred North Whitehead
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. — Aristotle
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler… — Robert Ludlum
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau

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