Simple Hearted Quotes

#1. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. I'm not sure I know what 'simple-hearted' means," I said haughtily. "When there's no deceit or malice in your heart. Most of us have some; it protects us. People without it are rare.

Gail Godwin

#3. The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

Joseph Joubert

#4. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said

Mark Twain

#5. In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

Anne Bronte

#6. She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with hell following after.

Mark Twain

#7. It was natural enough that a warm, open, simple-hearted, honest giant like Razumihin, who had never seen any one like her and was not quite sober at the time, should lose his head immediately

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

Harold Holzer

#9. In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

Martin Luther

#11. In most cases, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering - only expensive - blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

Nikola Tesla

#13. Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye contact and without condition. This is not the opportunistic sizing-up of sexual cruising; instead, it's the felt recognition of the divinity and humanity in another individual.

Alexandra Katehakis

#14. If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

Drew Barrymore

#15. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#16. Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

Lucy Larcom

#17. You four are a whole other breed.

Scarlett Dawn

#18. Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact, simple-minded, tender-hearted; effects in due, in part, to the primitive life they led, but chiefly to their constant care of things lovable and helpless.

Lew Wallace

#19. Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.

Anonymous

#20. The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings.

Dee Williams

#21. Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee.

Marcus Aurelius

#22. To be, is to be in love.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this business, sometimes you can get cold-hearted. When I go, even if it's 20 below and snowing, I come back with a warm heart.

Riley Smith

#24. If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.

Moshe Ya'alon

#25. Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.

G.B. Gordon