Simplest Quotes - Page 3

• The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.

  David Fairchild

  Horse, Science, Glasses

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• The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 572-73, Maxims. No. 9, 1922.

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• The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Animal, Interesting

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.21, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Fans, Doe

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• By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Simplicity, Way

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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• It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other.

  Julia Roberts

  Doe, Arms, Reach Out

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• Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Flower, Blow, Looks

  David Macbeth Moir (1860). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir [Delta]”, p.240

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• There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.

  Ken Hensley

  Song, Temptation, Facts

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• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Joy, Phrases

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• Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

  Paul Lockhart

  Thinking, Enjoy, Mathematician

  "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

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• The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

  Howard Hawks

  Drama, Gun, Form

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Life And Death

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.

  Robert Cailliau

  Blue, Somewhere Else, Giving

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• A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

  George Iles

  Science, Keys, Form

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

  Etgar Keret

  Stories, Want, Way

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Sometimes

  Interview with Christopher Monfette, www.ign.com. August 24, 2007.

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• Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

  Stefanie Powers

  Climate, Routine, Bugs

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• The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it.

  John Assaraf

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Looks

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jun 07, 2014

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• A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Shoes, Poor

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• Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dog, Men, My Dog

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• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  Oliver Lodge

  Personality, Facts, Able

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• Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Song, Teaching

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• Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

  David Parnas

  Lying, Keys, Design

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• The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.

  Richard Schmid

  Eye, Sight, Views

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• The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

  Thomas Merton

  Ordinary, Routine, Way

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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