Simply Quotes

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
-Albert Einstein

"Be not simply good - be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory."
-Abraham Lincoln

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."
-Mark Twain

"If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick."
-Mark Twain

"An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."
-George Orwell

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
-Storm Jameson

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."
-Anne Frank

"Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
-Oscar Wilde

"Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes."
-Oscar Wilde

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
-Oscar Wilde

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
-Oscar Wilde

"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities."
-Oscar Wilde

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
-Oscar Wilde

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike."
-Oscar Wilde

"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
-Douglas Adams

"Simply the thing that I am shall make me live."
-William Shakespeare

"Live simply that others may simply live."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The problem that has no name - which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities - is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease."
-Betty Friedan

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
-Lewis Carroll

"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected."
-Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."
-Matthew Arnold

"Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart."
-Sarah Ban Breathnach