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Simplicity Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
- Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
- 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…
- 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…
- Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
- The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
- A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence…
- Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
- A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is,…
- It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
More Simplicity Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey
- Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
- Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee