"Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of……" — Lin Yutang

"Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought."

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83 Quotes by Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang has 83 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little…
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated…
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful…
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to…
It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of…
Art is both creation and recreation.
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus…
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old…

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More Depth Quotes

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The… — Saint Augustine
I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,… — Emilie Autumn
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and… — Ansel Adams
No, I think the pitching today has more depth. — Ernie Banks
During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that… — Ernie Banks
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in… — Henry Adams
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. — Georges Bernanos

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