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Quotes About Simplicity

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
~ Stendhal
I bet you to believe me when I say again that we do not need a great house, Sarah. We only need a great love.
~ Stephanie Grace Whitson
He deconstructed things in his head," I said slowly. "Then he put them back together in a way I could understand. Brilliance is seeing what others can't and rendering it simple.
~ Stephanie Kegan
Advice for New Knitters When choosing a pattern, look for ones that have words such as "simple", "basic", and "easy". If you see the words "intriguing", "challenging", or "intricate", look elsewhere. If you happen across a pattern that says "heirloom", slowly put down the pattern and back away. "Heirloom" is knitting code for "This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief".
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.
~ Chick Corea
The language of truth is simple.
~ Euripides
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Simple is the speech of truth.
~ Aeschylus
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
~ Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
~ David Mamet
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.
~ Emilie Autumn
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
~ Meister Eckhart
The great seal of truth is simplicity.
~ Herman Boerhaave
The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.
~ Christopher Pike
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
~ Winston Churchill
The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.
~ Swami Vivekananda
With few words, one can speak the truth.
~ Bryan Adams
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
~ Jack Kerouac
The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
~ Mahatma Gandhi