Quotes About Simplicity

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

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam's razor. (If everything in the symbolism works as though a sign had meaning, then it has meaning.)

What art is asked of us? The gift offered is different for each but all are equal in grandeur. To paint, draw, dance, compose. To write songs, poems, letters, diaries, prayers. To set a violet on the sill; stitch a quilt; bake bread; plant marigolds, beans, apple trees. To follow the track of the forest elk, the neighborhood coyote, the cupboard mouse. To open the windows, air the beds, sweep clean the corners. To hold the child's hand, listen to the vagrant's story, paint the

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian??ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

Assim vai a vida humana: um nada basta para complicar tudo.

Em verdade, pouco apareço e menos falo. Distrações raras. O mais do tempo é gasto em hortar, jardinar e ler; como bem e não durmo mal.

Quando a gente se aborrece dos homens toma sempre a afeição dos animais, que têm a vantagem de não discorrer, nem intrigar. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Os bons amores são cheios de felicidade, porque têm a virtude de não alçarem olhos para as estrelas do céu; contentam-se com ceias à meia-noite e alguns passeios a cavalo ou por mar. (Linha reta e linha curva)

A recordação de uns simples olhos basta para fixar outros que os recordem e se deleitem com a imaginação deles.

O melhor prólogo é o que contém menos coisas, ou o que as diz de um jeito obscuro e truncado.

We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

If the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I

Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one, Mrs. Murry said. More French toast, boys?

They can't understand plain, ordinary love when they see it.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.