Simple Minds Quotes

• Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Mind, Manage

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

  Georges Bernanos

  Dream, Loneliness, Simple

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• There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Simple, Confusion, Mind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Broadview Press

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Simple, Simplicity

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Art, Laughter

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  Wumen Huikai

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Simple, Worry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.118

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Education, Lying, Learning

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• Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Simple, Mind, Way

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Simple

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