Quotes about Simplicity
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
- Martin Luther
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
- Phillips Brooks
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?
- Reinhold Niebuhr
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
- Johannes Tauler
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
- Adrian Rogers
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
- Marcus Aurelius
The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.
- Bo Sanchez