simplicity Quotes

“let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful—at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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