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Quotes About Simplicity

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.
~ Mireille Enos
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
And simple truth miscalled simplicity
~ William Shakespeare
Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.
~ George S. Clason
The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
~ Frederick Carl Frieseke
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.
~ Charles-Francois Dupuis
If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.
~ Mark Twain
Do the truth quietly without display.
~ Brennan Manning
I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.
~ Ragnar Kjartansson
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
~ Alexander Pope
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
~ Nicolas Chamfort
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
~ Walker Percy
It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand
~ Neil Young
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
~ William Penn
To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.
~ Ilchi Lee
To add to truth distracts from it.
~ Alex Toth
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.
~ Anthony Bourdain
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing
~ David Simon
In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
~ Deborah Keenan
I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
~ Edward Abbey
It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.
~ Frank Luntz
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.
~ George MacDonald
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau