Quotes About Simplicity

This is not rocket surgery.

the Irish seven-course meal is a six pack and a potato

It was scary as hell when you considered everything together, but if you approached each thing individually, it was simple.

To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.

if physics is much simpler to describe under the assumption that space is discrete, rather than continuous, is not this fact itself a strong argument for space being discrete? If so, then might space look, on some very small scale, something like Wilson's lattice.

A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory...

telegram saying, "Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return.

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In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, without any price, no one I knew spoke of it, no one competed for it. Instead, one by one those who could afford it began to sleep indoors in cool air-conditioned rooms, away from the mosquitoes and the flies...

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

La semplicità è la sofisticazione finale.

Wenn auch der menschliche Geist durch vielfache Erfindungen mit verschiedenen Instrumenten auf dasselbe Ziel zugeht, nie wird er eine Erfindung machen, die schöner, leichter und kürzer wäre als die Natur.

A simplicidade é o último grau de sofisticação

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity

In der Einfachheit liegt die größte Vollendung

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!