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Simple

Definition: Easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty. A medicinal herb, or a medicine made from one. Used to convey that something is very straightforward.
Number of Quotes: 11

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
Eugène Delacroix

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
Anne Frank

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley

Do not assume more variables than necessary.
William Ockham

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
Queen Latifah

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

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