Top 100 Quotes About Simplest

#1. With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

William Of Ockham

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#2. Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

Gary Wolf

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#3. The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Lincoln Child

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#4. The simplest way to learn business is to study your competition and improve what they are offering.

Ehab Atalla

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#5. Tengo has an innate knack for precision in all realms, including correct punctuation and discovering the simplest possible formula necessary to solve a math problem.

Haruki Murakami

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#6. At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

Edmund Phelps

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#7. So these are the fresh meat, eh?" Zuko smirked.

I cringed when he said fresh meat. How demeaning.

"Well, I don't know how well all of you can fight. So I'll find out the quickest and simplest way." He raised a scarred arm and pointed it at all of us, "ATTACK THE FRESH MEAT!

L. Benitez

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#8. Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#9. Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

Louisa May Alcott

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#10. Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it.

Kristin Hannah

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#11. Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#12. The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.

Dean Potter

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#13. During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

Dalai Lama

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#14. In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

George Biddell Airy

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#15. I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

Jonathan Swift

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#16. Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

Mark Twain

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#17. The best plans are always the simplest.

Jasper Fforde

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#18. A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#19. 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 Joseph Lodge

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#20. Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

Graham Cooke

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#21. Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#22. When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Patricia Sun

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#23. When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Charles Lamb

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#24. When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

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#25. Continually, a storm blew through our world and it always had, and the only place I knew where this was formulated, the most extreme yet simplest things, was in these holy scriptures.

Karl Ove Knausgard

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#26. I was wondering aimlessly; too many road were open ... too many resolves, too complex, allowed of being taken. I took ... by far the simplest of them all.

Edmond Rostand

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#27. We also know that the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at a time; at its simplest, we can think of stress as information overload, so when there's too much happening, the brain starts to triage, prioritizing, simplifying, and even plain old ignoring some things.

Emily Nagoski

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#28. A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.

Cory Doctorow

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#29. The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it.

Anonymous

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#30. Let us believe that God is in all our simplest deeds and learn to find Him there.

A.W. Tozer

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#31. An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#32. The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing.

Quentin Crisp

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#33. The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one's hand and ask: "Does this spark joy?" If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.

Marie Kondo

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#34. When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

Charles Sanders Peirce

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#35. Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Martin Parr

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#36. I will never understand
the whole world
or even
one country.
All I can do
is try to understand
the truth and lies
in the simplest choices
I face
every day.

Margarita Engle

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#37. Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.

Babatunde Olatunji

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#38. Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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

Carl Von Clausewitz

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#40. 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 (21).

Annie Dillard

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#41. Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Caitlin Moran

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#42. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simplest pleasure of existence.

John Green

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#43. Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries
which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

Marcel Proust

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#44. And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?

Pope John Paul II

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#45. Here was a man who defied all odds, lived by himself, worked, created beautiful art. A complex mind stumped by some of the simplest tasks.
If he could, he would keep trying until there was only absolute failure or success.
How many people could say that?

Adrienne Wilder

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#46. The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#47. The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

Daniel Starch

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#48. 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

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#49. Sometimes it's right to meet in the middle, but sometimes, the simplest act of grace is to meet the other person where they are. That, that is love

Mia Sheridan

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

Howard Hawks

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#51. Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.

Tosca Reno

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#52. The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.

Nathan Myhrvold

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#53. The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.

Henry R. Van Til

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#54. The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Noam Chomsky

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#55. I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.

Jacob Liberman

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#56. Somehow, even outside the library and our clearing in the woods, we were still in our own world. Everything else could fade away, and he and I would remain, tied together by something I couldn't quite expline. In its simplest term, love.

Rachel Schieffelbein

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#57. Sometimes, I am sad and so bitterly lonely and at times, I feel useless, as if I cannot accomplish even the simplest task.

Lynette Ferreira

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#58. The simplest answer is usually correct.

Harlan Coben

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#59. Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

Lanza Del Vasto

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#60. Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Michelle Williams

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#61. The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

Catherine McAuley

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#62. Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child.

Czeslaw Milosz

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#63. This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones

Karen Foxlee

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#64. Only the simplest of facts can be accepted as an undisputed truth.

Eraldo Banovac

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#65. It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Charles Peguy

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#66. even the simplest technology has you staring slack-jawed in wonder at it, until the drool runs down your chin. Hell, if I gave you a jump drive, you'd probably just worship it, so

Craig Alanson

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#67. I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

Louise Gluck

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#68. If you added it up, without her there was nothing
but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.
(from the novella, Revenge)

Jim Harrison

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#69. The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Helen Keller

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#70. There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.

Charles Lyell

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#71. A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

Honore De Balzac

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#72. The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

Heather Morris

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#73. the simplest definition of the Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry.

Jonathan Sacks

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#74. I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#75. Do you really want to know the simplest secret to a happy life and a positive attitude? It's believing that God is on your side; that He's actively working on your behalf, that he loves you and is capable of completely forgiving you.

Toni Sorenson

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#76. It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

James Rosenquist

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#77. The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Carl Sagan

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#78. Causality was no longer the hidden demiurge that ruled the universe: down was up, the last was the first, the end was the beginning. Heraclitus had been resurrected from his dung heap, and what he had to show us was the simplest of truths: reality was a yo-yo, change was the only constant.

Paul Auster

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#79. In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.

Libba Bray

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#80. The simplest things are often the truest.

Richard Bach

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#81. The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

Julian Baggini

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#82. I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties.

Charles Olson

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#83. All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Albert Einstein

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#84. People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Leo Tolstoy

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#85. There is no divinity achieved unless the individual mind submits itself to a mind supposed supreme. The Bible in its simplest form is simply that - a book. When you give it your mind it becomes powerful.

Dew Platt

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#86. The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#87. The simplest explanation is usually the right one

William Of Ockham

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#88. When you're having what you feel like is a "bad day" and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.

Miya Yamanouchi

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#89. The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.

Joseph O'Neill

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#90. A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

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#91. 'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Mike Rowe

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#92. I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.

Terry Teachout

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#93. Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

Tara Brach

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#94. I'm not sure we ever believe the simplest emotions in our art, although we see them all around us, every day.

Stephen King

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#95. Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Garry Kasparov

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#96. Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

Jim Dunnigan

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#97. Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

Mors Kochanski

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#98. The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.

Irving Stone

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#99. John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.

William J Doherty

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#100. That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing.

David Lynch

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