Quotes about simple
simple numbers simplicity
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession. Hermann Weyl
simple simplicity details
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.
simple past tangled
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity. Henry Steele Commager
simple care sentimental
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous. Henry Van Dyke
simple may youth
Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
simple chance mathematics
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed. Henri Poincare
simple drawing charcoal
A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing. Henri Matisse
simple color rainbow
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
simple trying be-good
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
simple attention should
'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention. Henri Nouwen
simple people limits
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.
simple interest simple-things
Simple things don't interest me. Hiam Abbass
simple names purpose
The plain wooden toothpick, it may be argued, is among the simplest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, intended for a single purpose-from which it gets its simple name. It is also among the most convenient and ready of things. It can be used directly out of the box-there being no instructions to read, no parts to assemble, no priming or booting required, and no maintenance expected. When it has served its purpose, it is simply discarded. Henry Petroski
simple world reputation
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT! Henry Ford
simple race poetry
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible! Henry James
simple simplicity jargon
Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth. Helena Rubinstein
simple desire easy
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
simple simplicity
Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
simple errors demand
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.
simple how-to-love persons
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Haruki Murakami
simple baffled should
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love. Gustave Flaubert
simple matter
To be simple is no small matter.
simple decision champion
When the BCS started, a decision was made collectively, as coaches, that the BCS champion would receive our championship and our trophy. It's as simple as that. Grant Teaff
simple light mind
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. Gilbert K. Chesterton
simple physical-science infallible
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
simple sweat simplicity
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
simple simplicity world
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
simple way doe
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
simple men suffering
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
simple darkness facts
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
simple together groups
The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' John Malkovich
simple reflection ideas
The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea. John Locke
simple enchantment puritan
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism