Simplest Quotes

• Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Simple, Friction

  "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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• Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

  Hugh Jackman

  Fathers Day, Dad, Sleep

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

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• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Grandma, Grandmother

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Kids

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Liars, Lying, Skills

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• God always takes the simplest way.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The 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 Bach

  Life, Change, Home

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• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  Karl Barth

  Inspirational, Thank You, Gratitude

  "Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place". Book by Bob Stromberg, 1994.

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  Edmund Burke

  Emotional, Curiosity, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Time, Learning

  "Death in the Afternoon". Book by Ernest Hemingway, chapter 16, 1932.

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• When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mind, Computer, Capacity

  "A Stroll with William James". Book by Jacques Barzun, 1983.

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• The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

  Max Beerbohm

  Beautiful, Mean, Perfect

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.284, New York Review of Books

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• The simplest things give me ideas.

  Joan Miro

  Ideas, Giving, Simplicity

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• Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

  Neil Leifer

  Photography, Sometimes, Hardest

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• The greatest ideas are the simplest.

  William Golding

  Ideas, Simplicity, Insight

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.181, Penguin

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• Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Thank You, Gratitude

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Philosopher, Motto

  Alfred North Whitehead (2015). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.104, Cambridge University Press

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• 'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Simple, Thinking

  "The Future of Architecture".

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• The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Way

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.

  Nick Hornby

  Sorry, People, Asking

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