Quotes About Simplicity

Pleasures tasted sparingly and with difficulty have always a higher relish, whilst everything that is easy and common grows stale and insipid.

The cookery books will give you a thousand finicky devices, mushrooms in this, mushrooms in that, but there is only one way—to fry them, simply with bacon, until they swim in their black fragrant juice.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.

Per ogni problema complesso vi è una soluzione semplice. Ed è sempre sbagliata

summed up his principle of poetic composition this way: "Lotus flowers come out of limpid water, / Natural without any decoration.

95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics.

When life is a weariness and escape impossible, it is wonderful to have a friend who can bring us peace with the touch of a hand. After this Finna decided to tend the cow herself... Those were the good days. They were serene days and quite undemonstrative, like the best days in one's like; the boy never forgot them. Nothing happens; one simply lives and breathes and wishes for nothing more, and nothing more.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. I am always trying to forget words. That is why I contemplate the lilies of the field, but in particular the glacier. If one looks at the glacier for long enough, words cease to have any meaning on God's earth.

Those were good days. They were serene days and quite undemonstrative, like the best days in one's life; the boy never forgot them. Nothing happens; one simply lives and breathes and wishes for nothing more, and nothing more.

En þeir sem voru snemma á fótum morguninn eftir urðu þeirrar huggunar aðnjótandi að sjá Pétur Pálsson ríða heim af fjalli, að vísu aðþreingdan nokkuð, ákaflega moldugan, hattlausan, tannlausan, og loníettulausan, en þó óneitanlega í tiltölulega ómyrtu ásigkomulagi.

Why wander all over the world looking for something you already have?

the world is simple: it's just a matter of cafés where they like you, and cafés where they don't.

And they both sat there, grown up, yet children at heart; and it was summer, - warm, beautiful summer.

At leve er ikke nok. Solskin, frihed og en lille blomst må man ha

The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.

Most people oversimplify Occam's razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn't complicate, that you shouldn't "stack" a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess.

Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or "work cottage" in which to write. We all met up for dinner at night. That was it. There was no Internet, no TV, no phones, yes lights, but no motorcar, not a single luxury.

I smiled down at Chloe and petted her head. She put a paw on my arm in a comforting gesture. "You want to go for a walk, girl?" I said. Chloe's reply was to bound about like a circus freak on speed. Like I told you before, it's the little things. The

Good time to fill me in," Cornelius said. So he did. "That's messed up," Cornelius said when he finished. "Yup." Then: "Why did you help us, Cornelius?" "Why not?" "I'm serious." "So am I. Not a lot of chances to be a hero in real life. You got to step up when the opportunity presents itself." Cornelius shrugged as if to emphasize it was a no-brainer and that simple, and Simon believed that maybe it was.

It was that simple and yet that deep.

Wow." "You've got quite the vocabulary." "Never use a big word when a small one will suffice." "I could make a crack here, but I won't.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I love minimalistic jewellery with a contemporary touch.