Quotes About Simplicity

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.

You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

root of my literary ambitions, apart from the marvelous simplicity with which one sees things at the age of five, lay in a prodigious piece of craftsmanship and precision that was exhibited in a fountain-pen shop on Calle Anselmo Clavé

Que se yo. La gente se complica la vida, como si no fuese suficientemente complicada

La gente se complica la vida, como si no fuese suficientemente complicada.

La fe es una respuesta instintiva a aspectos de la existencia que no podemos explicar de otro modo, bien sea el universo, la certeza de la muerte, el misterio del origen de las cosas o el sentido de nuestra vida. Son aspectos elementales de extraordinaria sencillez.

Nichts, was in diesem Leben die mühe lohnt, ist einfach, Daniel.

Jo sí que sabia, amb tota certesa, que l'única finalitat del nostre amor era, senzillament, l'amor

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Anthropologist and teacher Margaret Mead said in Redbook magazine in 1963, "If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.

Leave that cycle at home. I like a truck bed to play around in under the moon and stars.

My grandmother taught me to read before I went to school. I was reading the newspaper when I was five. And Grandpa taught me to do math and figure. They believed in living simply. Grandpa grew a garden, and Grandma canned food for the winter. They taught me to work and to love to learn new things. I wasn't really afraid or shy.

Occam's razor

Son, do you know how love should be begun? The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old man leaned closer and whispered: A tree. A rock. A cloud.

My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Your amateur's not cluttered up with academic prejudice, Miss Holroyd," Richard Tindall was fond of saying. "He hasn't read every single thing that has ever been written on the subject. The amateur sees a problem in its simplest form and it doesn't occur to him that it's insoluble.

John was a man of few words and many grunts and one of his grunts could express a volume. He had a variety of them which he adapted as the situation arose. But they all seemed to express his view on life, the principle of which was, 'you leave me be, and I'll leave you be';

Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.