All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillBe simple and sincere.
Sai BabaThe words of truth are simple.
AeschylusThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple, the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaSometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. SeussLife is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.
ConfuciusIt is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath TagoreThe pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar WildeExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan WattsIf you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert EinsteinGuys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
Dave BarryLive simply so others may simply live.
Mother TeresaIt is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia BarrMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is, and why it exists at all.
Stephen HawkingFor every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.
H. L. MenckenSimply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you and trust to your own reactions and convictions.
Ansel AdamsAnd now here is my secret a very simple secret, it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyMan must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Charles LindberghIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean PaulAs you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauThe easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
BuddhaDid you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson WellesMy religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai LamaIn dwelling live close to the ground. In thinking keep to the simple. In conflict be fair and generous. In governing don't try to control. In work do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present.
Lao TzuHere on the pulse of this new day, You may have the grace to look up and out, And into your sister's eyes into, Your brother's face your country, And say simply, Very simply, With hope, Good Morning.
Maya AngelouLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da VinciI'm just a simple country girl.
Dolly PartonAll truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich NietzscheThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand RussellOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
StendhalWhen the solution is simple God is answering.
Albert EinsteinIf you cannot endure abuse from another, just say a simple word or two, or else leave.
Sai BabaThe first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.
Edmund BurkeSimple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard BachWe shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother TeresaWe have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo CoelhoDon't be "consistent", but be simple true.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIf you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will RogersEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply, as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty, but what is true.
Albert SchweitzerFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da VinciSuccess is simple. Do what's right the right way at the right time.
Arnold H. GlasowEducators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
John C. MaxwellComplex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.
Richard DawkinsNo architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John RuskinIrony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason CooleyHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice WalkerIt's simple, if it jiggles it's fat.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerOur pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThere are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald ReaganThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettWomen have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation, of children in arms, and men in love.
H. L. MenckenThe right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin CoolidgeBirds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug CouplandThey say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Ronald ReaganKeep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
Ingrid BergmanConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre MauroisMake everything as simple as possible but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinMotivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou HoltzThe firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
ConfuciusThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. WashingtonBeauty is an ecstasy, it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all.
W. Somerset MaughamSuccess is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.
Jim RohnMarriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph CampbellThe simplest things are often the truest.
Richard BachLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel ProustOne of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington IrvingIt is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de BalzacMany societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret MeadMy pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel PaigeThose who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
ConfuciusTo support mother and father to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood, this is the good luck.
BuddhaI believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert EinsteinMany books require no thought from those who read them and for a very simple reason, they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb ColtonI have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar WildeThere's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law, punish those who do not.
Rush LimbaughGood manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest HemingwayIt is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
AristotleMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Niccolo MachiavelliMy secret is simple - I pray.
Mother TeresaI have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao TzuWhen you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
Paulo CoelhoThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George EliotThe point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand RussellThoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich NietzscheThe simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave BarryBut what is happiness, except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusI don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.
Joel OsteenThere is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life, as the simple truth.
Charles DickensIt should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert EinsteinA return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.
Meister EckhartIt is fatal to be a man or woman, pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia WoolfIt is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated, far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John RuskinWell, I have a very simple method of painting.
Edward HopperGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellMen are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment, that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo MachiavelliTo disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.
Louis L'AmourThe Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent PealeAre creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma GandhiDeficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron PaulThe simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas SowellI got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven WrightI claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma GandhiMost of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may as a rule be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert EinsteinSince when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill GatesPolitical extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. GardnerThat's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there you can move mountains.
Steve JobsSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da VinciIssues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack ObamaMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotOn a level plain simple mounds look like hills, and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl MarxOh come on, you have got to be kidding me. I had good looks but missed them. It is as simple as that. They just weren't falling. Some nights I am on fire and other nights I have nights like tonight where the shots weren't going in.
Kobe BryantThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard DawkinsChildren show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Michael JacksonA bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya AngelouI describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai LamaIt's quite simple (public speaking) Say what you have to say, and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down.
Winston ChurchillFor me, it was always a simple passion.
Lance ArmstrongGod always takes the simplest way.
Albert EinsteinKnowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. EliotThe statement of Christ is simple. He who sent me among you will come again . And he pointed to a lamb. The lamb is merely a symbol -- a sign. It stands for the voice - BABA. The announcement was The advent of BABA . He will wear a robe of red blooded robe. He will be short with a crown (of hair). The lamb is a sign and symbol of Love.
Sai BabaThe quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny DeppEverything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinWe just did not execute in overtime and the execution was really simple ... They just got the ball to Jason and let him operate.
Kobe BryantI want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack ObamaMost people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
Mason CooleyIt takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number add it to this number put the result there perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of let's say 1 000 000 per second. At 1 000 000 per second the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs