Simple Quotes

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."
-Henry David Thoreau

"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."
-Henry David Thoreau

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."
-Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
-Albert Einstein

"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple."
-Albert Einstein

"Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-Albert Einstein

"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."
-Plato

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
-Dr. Seuss

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde

"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."
-Oscar Wilde

"We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
-Confucius

"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."
-Carl Sagan

"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
-Stephen Hawking

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."
-Charles Dickens

"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity."
-Tom Peters

"Life 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."
-Tom Peters

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
-Confucius

"We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."
-Thucydides

"One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before."
-Kin Hubbard

"The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry."
-Bill Clinton

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
-G. K. Chesterton

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."
-Albert Camus

"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple - teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep - wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise - follow him."
-German Proverb