Simplicity Quotes

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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it… — Jasper Fforde
But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be. — Fernando Pessoa
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple.… — Frank Lloyd Wright
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware… — Edward Abbey
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde
Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you. — Emilie Autumn
The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men. — Jorge Luis Borges
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be… — Muriel Barbery
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to… — Michel de Montaigne
Live simply so that others may simply live. — Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us… — Richard J. Foster
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a… — Thomas Merton
simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them". — Paulo Coelho
By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad.… — Alison Croggon
The greatest ideas are the simplest. — William Golding
If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. — Aberjhani
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beautyâ€”by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.â€”to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. — Oscar Wilde

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