Quotes About Simplicity

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.

There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history... is the will of a single man.

She was the only one who made him hear music. The only one who made him feel home. The only one who wanted nothing more than for him to be plain, simple Will Truitt.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds of knowledge about the nature of religion. Children have it naturally.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.