Best simple & clear Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.”

World Mind Ideas Nations Simple Clear Greater Complexes Conception Precise Greater Power

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.”

Facts Simple Clear Ego Excitement

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.”

Eye Order Courses Simple Clear Benefits Exposed Contrast

Author:Samuel Beckett

“I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Simple Clear Wonderful Products Complicated Fabulous

Author:Mark Morris

“It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.”

Knows Kind Reason Universe Simple Knowledge Clear Arbitrary Classification Conjecture

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.”

Light Age Simple Clear Involved Statements Prophet Doom Simple Truths

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.”

Simple Common Clear Philosopher Absence Usage Jargon Simple Words Erudition

Author:Andre Maurois

“Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.”

Feels Trying Long Universe Energy Understanding Simple Behinds Practice Clear Events Creatures Beats Bones Cute Sensations Multiplicity

Author:Alan Watts

“Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.”

Simple Clear Focus Quiet Reflection Faithful Reminders Simple Things Annuals Quiet Reflection

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.”

Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.”

Mind Humans Able Desire Simple Effort Clear Figures Demand Gains Roots Manage Motive Sole Penetrate

Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.”

Writing Humans Whole Life Is Simple Clear Profound Complexes Human Life Consistent Cheat Superficial Biographies Unified

Author:Iris Origo

“Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.”

Simple Clear Materials Simplicity Spares

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.”

People Ifs Thinking Book Use Reality Courses Simple Known Worry Clear Childhood Tough Filled Busy Planning Nervous Managers Complexity Frightened Thick Reverse Insecure Slides Convoluted

Author:Jack Welch

“To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.”

People Ifs Way Doe Simple Clear Movement Meetings Drawing Passages Invites Clicks Exodus

Author:Rob Bell

“What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.”

Needs Helping Justice Simple Clear Unique Understood Dignity Clarity Revolutionary Thinker Elites

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.”

“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.”

Hands Simple Clear Goodness Conscience Ingredients Clear Conscience

Author:William B. Ogden

“Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!”

Life Simple Clear Mystery Complexes Mystic

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.”

Ifs Mind Found Father Simple Boys Clear Heard Taught Lessons Yesterday Worthless

Author:Irving Pichel

“A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.”

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

“I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.”

Feels Truth Simple Clear Truth Is Drug Feel Good Diets Mysticism Rebellion Intellectualism

Author:Chick Corea

“The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.”

Should Believe Art Body Simple Clear Shapes Details Various Units Parts Of The Body

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up.”

Thinking Way Trying Different Term Simple Answers Business Cases Clear Cost Mountain Smart Customers Different Ways Things To Do Climbing Goodwill Stunning

Author:Ray Anderson

“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.”

Ifs Language Given Water Simple Secret Clear Mysterious Carrie Thirst Buckets Gallons

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.”

Doe Problem Simple Morning Clear Clarity Friendly Software Globes Friendliness

Author:Ted Nelson

“Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!”

Has Beens Ends Fall Simple Ability Leader Millions Clear Mass Stupidity Ignorant Proven Once Upon A Time Ability To See Simple Truths Ignorant Masses

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.”

World Desire Language Simple Clear Share Danger Misinterpreted

Author:Paulo Coelho

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