Quotes About Simplicity

The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.

Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. —EGON FRIEDELL,

the damaging notion that obscure is the way philosophy should sound.

It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America, but it pictures the people and the customs and the drama of upstate New York in the days preceding and following the Civil War with a simplicity that, to my mind, is true art.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

All you really need in life is a good quality cigar, a place sit and a lighter that that works "

In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oak That I used to say is my love for the world, That I now would just call love as it is. Belonging to nobody, no metaphor, the very.

A qui vit aux champs et se sert de ses yeux, tout devient miraculeux et simple. To those who dwell in the fields and use their eyes, everything becomes miraculous and simple

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can.

Prostia, dup? cum spune Pyrrhon, nu-i deloc mai prejos decât înÈ›elepciunea, de care nu se deosebeÈ™te prin nimic.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

In einer Welt, die unübersichtlich geworden ist, wächst das Bedürfnis nach der Geordnetheit des Krippleins.

Simplicity is the seal of truth!

Ieder idioot kan met een trein rijden. Het is altijd rechtdoor.

maar ik hou eigenlijk nog meer van een groep woorden die zich samen plotseling bijzonder intiem gaan voelen en zeggen: laat ons nou maar altijd bij elkaar, er hoeft er geen meer bij te komen.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.

Some people are exceptionally clear eyed. To them, nothing is ever too complex or mysterious. Answers invisible to most are in plain sight to these enlightened few. Their approach to the world is elementary and, without fail, right. They see through false complications and find the simple truths of life. Mildred was blessed with this lucidity.

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

Everything that happens is always simple. And there's a principle to how things proceed, assuming that they last.