Quotes about Simplicity

There, now, father, you won't work in it till it's all easy, said Eppie, and you and me can mark out the beds, and make holes and plant the roots. It'll be a deal livelier at the Stone-pits when we've got some flowers, for I always think the flowers can see us and know what we're talking about. And I'll have a bit o' rosemary, and bergamot, and thyme, because they're so sweet-smelling; but there's no lavender only in the gentlefolks' gardens, I think.

Contented speckled hens, industriously scratching for the rarely-found corn, may sometimes do more for a sick heart than a grove of nightingales; there is something irresistibly calming in the unsentimental cheeriness of top-knotted pullets, unpetted sheep-dogs, and patient cart-horses enjoying a drink of muddy water.

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Truly blessed are those whose hearts know the peace of God; otherwise, the poor and the rich, the beggar and the king are all alike.

I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.

To restore silence is the role of objects.