Quotes about Simplicity
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
- Henry David Thoreau
Too much thinking causes confusion and anxietybetter to stick with the simplicity of Tao.
- Lao Tzu
If all the world should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' all-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
- John Milton
If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.
- Amy Grant
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.
- Henry Ford
Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
- St. John Chrysostom
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.
- Charles Spurgeon
How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?
- Ann Voskamp
...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
- Wendell Berry
My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
- William Golding