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“It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.”

Book Three Company Talking Simplicity Ancient Stranger Curious Marvelous Castles Three Things Familiarity Armor Candid

Book:10 Books in 1

Source: 10 Books in 1

“I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.”

Poetry Bed Garden Hot Simplicity

Book:The letter of Charles Lamb, newly arranged: with additions; ed., with introduction and notes

Source: The letter of Charles Lamb, newly arranged: with additions; ed., with introduction and notes

“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.”

“Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.”

Used Choices Pleasure Color Simplicity Painter Sermons

Author:Martin Luther

“Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.”

Found Simplicity Jewels

Author:Ovid

“He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.”

Might Simplicity Currents Foolish Streams Swim Sideways Swimmer

Author:Ovid

“The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.”

Book Whole Jobs Language Morality Pure Bible Perfection Regard Simplicity Noble Scripture Comparison Exceed Sublimity

Author:Alexander Pope

“For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.”

Firsts May Children Art First Time Guilt Faults Simplicity Spread Charm Novelty Offspring

Book:The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub

Source: The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub

“Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.”

Heart Healing Principles Simplicity Genuine

Book:.) (1853).

Source: .) (1853).

“A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.”

Giving Mind Ideas Whole Perfect Essence Excellence Simplicity Worthy Sentences Finished Remembered Merit Glorious Volume Composition Few Words Great Minds Single Sentence

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.”

Writing Doe Matter Hands Masters Mark Paint Simplicity Statues

Author:Elsie de Wolfe

“At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.”

Problem Seems Suffering Dies Animal Simplicity Envy

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.”

Easy Difficult Lines Perfect Millions Achieve Style Design Approach Simplicity Difficult Things

Author:Keith Michael

“Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.”

Ifs World Should Would Be Honest Proud Simplicity Silly Be Proud Alliances Great Friend

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.”

Simple Half Simplicity Sincere Deceiving Hearted

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.”

Taste Simplicity

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.”

Wall Simplicity

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

Ifs Truth Doubt Meditation Possibility Students Method Fruit Simplicity Where You Are Can Not Doubt Me

Author:Dogen

“It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.”

Kind Made Two Sometimes Order Miracle Incredibles Simplicity Humble Sock Lace Knitting Stitches Yarn

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.”

Silence Increase Simplicity Oneself Admire Delicate One Love

Book:Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand

Source: Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand

“The badge of honesty is simplicity.”

Honesty Simplicity Badges

Author:Novalis

“Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.”

Real Character Greatness Unity Simplicity Variety

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.”

Form Simple Simplicity True Friend Good Love

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.”

Life Is Greatness Essentials Simplicity

Book:The Education of Catholic Girls

Source: The Education of Catholic Girls

“The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.”

Source: Works

“poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.”

Needs Poverty Simplicity

Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.”

Ifs Way Should Years Believe Mean Children Given Thousand Simplicity Scripture Lions Thousand Years

Author:M. R. DeHaan

“The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.”

Truth Simplicity Simplest

Author:Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

“I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.”

Men Giving Believe Long Strong Cutting Shapes Don't Believe Simplicity Legs Shoulders Suits Classic Playing Around Long Legs

Author:Tom Ford

“There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.”

Long Running Money Secret Path Cutting Style Investment Investing Simplicity Profit Making Money Long Runs

Book:Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

Source: Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

“There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.”

Way Beautiful Language Simplicity

Author:Margaret Wise Brown

“You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.”

Ends Process Mystery Findings Enlightenment Asking Simplicity Seeking

Author:Bill W.

“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.”

Facts Aim Complexes Simplicity Explanation Statistics Distrust Simplest

Book:The Concept of Nature

Source: The Concept of Nature

“The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.”

World Masters Simplicity Size Our World

Author:Jacinto Benavente

“The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.”

Mind Particular Enlightenment Experience Simplicity Concentration Calmness

Book:Zen and the Art of Happiness

Source: Zen and the Art of Happiness

“The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.”

Found Beauty Harmony Simplicity Tranquility

Author:Thich Thien-An

“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

“I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.”

Beautiful Simplicity Despise Negation Simplicity In Art

Author:Norman Hartnell

“It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.”

Way Simplicity Combination Complexity Sculpture Astonishing Enlightening Minimalist

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.”

Weapons Simplicity Brevity

Book:Max (EasyRead Large Edition)

Source: Max (EasyRead Large Edition)

“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Needs Mean Persons Long Might Action Form Evil Results Moral Trump Europe Simplicity Priorities Appeals Assumption Dimensions Aesthetic Efficiency Assessment Evaluation Good Evil Assessing

Author:Raymond Geuss

“Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.”

Needs Littles Nature Realizing Teach Simplicity Happy Contentment

Author:Mark Coleman

“If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.”

Ifs Seems Loses Events Happenings Sight Difficulty Simplicity Details Obvious Hurrying Saturated Events In Life

Author:Mary Butts

“I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!”

Way Believe Moving Wife Simplicity My Wife Considering

Book:Eternal on the Water

Source: Eternal on the Water

“The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.”

Needs Mind Play Greater Complexes Simplicity Captain Kirk

Author:James Kirk

“We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.”

People Simplicity Reactions Complexity Refreshing

Author:Ben Whishaw

“Simplicity is a most complex form”

Form Complexes Simplicity

Author:Duke Ellington

“Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.”

World Doe Simplicity Deceit Despise Duplicity

Author:Bill Vaughan

“To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.”

Needs Process Growth Behinds Company Focus Cost Concepts Strategy Simplicity Execution Efficiency Alignment Refining Great Company Assessing

Author:Bill Vaughan

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