Quotes About Simplicity

The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible. "Before

The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible.

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both.

Uncomplicated men assumed others to have uncomplicated motivations

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

explain decisions as seldom as possible; the more often you explained, the more explanations were necessary, until they were all you had time for.

Let the word stand on its own. If it is the right word, it will work without help. If it's the wrong word, adding other words to it will just make it seem desperate.

It was a plain table, and unadorned like all of her furnishings, some of which she suspected might be of indifferent workmanship. A trivial matter; so long as furniture did what it was supposed to do, nothing more mattered

No soy un señor, milady. Soy un pastor, y toco la flauta en las posadas

Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.

There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety. The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known.

I don't want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going.

I don't want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving down the empty road. 5

I'm happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.

But in the secondary America we've been through, of back roads, and Chinaman's ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated. And so there wasn't much feeling of loneliness.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle.

The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

So we move down the empty road. I don't want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving down the empty road.