Quotes About Simplicity

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Einstein also recognized the power of simplicity, and it was the key to his breakthroughs in physics. He noted that the five ascending levels of intellect were, "Smart, Intelligent, Brilliant, Genius, Simple." For Einstein, simplicity was simply the highest level of intellect.

I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.

Trissottani: ma lo scemo ignorante è uno scemo più puro. Clitandro: lo scemo intellettuale è uno scemo due volte.

Anyhow, what could be more delicious and delicate than a baby rabbit?

fried eggs and buttered toast and

It was him and it was me and it was nothing else.

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. I started going for long lone country walks among the spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end, giving myself up to the earth-scents and the sky-winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.

In those olden times you didn't have to be a space scientist to manage the gadget that flicked your TV on and off, that ridiculous thingamabob that now comes with twenty push buttons, God knows what for. Doctors made house calls. Rabbis were guys. Kids were raised by their moms instead of in child-care pens like piglets. Software meant haberdashery.

The most perfect actions echo the patterns found in nature.

When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Do away with emperors, kings, and artificial government; establish true equality; abolish capitalism; live in God's heart, simply and purely!

Man knew how to feed, clothe, and house himself millenniums before mathematics existed.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..

they exist, equilibrium points are easy to

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Live simply so others may simply live.

I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.