Emerson Simplicity Quotes

#1. It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I have been very, very happy. Mamma always said that even if there wasn't any happiness one must try to be happy without it.

Angela Thirkell

#5. Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She's somebody I've always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps.

Ndamukong Suh

#6. Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. The simplest words,
we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. And there it was, pushing up through all the worries: hope.

Kiera Cass

#9. A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

Corey Taylor

#11. I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

Anna Chlumsky

#12. The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.

Hal Borland

#13. Sometimes being a Highland Laird was a royal pain in the arse.

Victoria Roberts

#14. Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson