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Simplicity Quotes (page 8)

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 event. Oscar Wilde
Bill Bryson quote: "Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate..."
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness. Bill Bryson
Saint Francis de Sales quote: "There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity."
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. Saint Francis de Sales
Lew Wallace quote: "Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of..."
Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone. Lew Wallace
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all Ludwig Wittgenstein
George Eliot quote: "Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute..."
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. George Eliot
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson quote: "Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent..."
Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity. Emily Dickinson
Lao Tzu quote: "Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness,..."
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. Lao Tzu
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love. Camille Paglia
Thomas Hardy quote: "Bless thy simplicity, Tess"
Bless thy simplicity, Tess Thomas Hardy
Aristotle quote: "It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than..."
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. Aristotle
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return. Charles Alexander Eastman
At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions. Patrick White
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 of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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