Quotes About Simplicity

La poesía sirve sobre todo para complicar las cosas, ¿no? Pero igual complicándolas se entienden mejor. Y al entenderlas se simplifican.

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that.

Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple!

Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye - little makes up the quality of the best happiness. Soft!

But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands.

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the child's and more simple than simplicity itself; in spite of the many clever wrinkles on his parchment face, and the masterly play of his fingers in unravelling the knots.

sesuai dengan diri kita, kita semua purapura lebih sederhana dari yang sebenarnya: inilah cara dimana kita dapat bersantai dari orang lain

Inocencia es el niño, y olvido, un nuevo comienzo, un juego, una rueda que se mueve por sí misma, un primer movimiento, un santo decir sí.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

I'm resigned to living in a chess-type universe—few and simple rules, but infinite combinations of them.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.

It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have.

relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.

There were only two classes of people who heard the cry Christmas night: shepherds and wise men. Shepherds: those who know they know nothing. Wise men: those who know they do not know everything. Only the very simple and very learned discovered God - never the man with one book.

The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.

Anna had read books about people in the cities going camping. They would leave their comfortable homes and beds and deliberately sleep in tents, on the ground, then cook their food outside over an open fire instead of in a well-stocked kitchen. She couldn't imagine something so ridiculous.

I do not like to influence others. I would not like to become famous. I have done nothing deserving of acknowledgment in my life.

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.