Simplest Quotes:

The simplest answer is to act.

- A.S. King

source: "Everybody Sees the Ants". Book by A.S. King, 2011.

topic: Answers, Simplest

The best design is the simplest one that works.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Design, Best Design, Simplest

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form,

- Anne Truitt

topic: Form, Maximum, Simplest

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

- Augustus Hare

topic: Men, Fame, Simplest, Greatest Man

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

- Babatunde Olatunji

topic: Together, Drumming, Simplest

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

- Barbara Taylor Bradford

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 21, 2014

topic: Taste, Simplest, Persons

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

- Carl Sagan

topic: Numbers, Logical, Simplest

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

- Carolyn Parkhurst

source: Carolyn Parkhurst (2010). “The Nobodies Album”, p.165, Anchor

topic: Simple, Said, Simplest

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

- Dan Brown

source: Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

topic: Multiple, Explanation, Simplest

Begin with the simplest examples.

- David Hilbert

source: "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.

topic: Example, Simplest

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

- Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

topic: Truth, Simplicity, Simplest

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Hero, Men, Simplest, Fireman, Being A Hero

The simplest science book is over my head.

- James Merrill

source: James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

topic: Book, Simplest, Science Books

The simplest things give me ideas.

- Joan Miro

topic: Ideas, Giving, Simplest

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

- Kaitlin Olson

source: Interview with Christopher Monfette, www.ign.com. August 24, 2007.

topic: Sometimes, Simplest

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

- Laurie Colwin

topic: Giving, Cooking, Simplest

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

- Lincoln Child

topic: Explanation, Simplest

The simplest is always the most difficult.

- Masaaki Hatsumi

topic: Difficult, Simplest

Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Dog, Men, Simplest

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

- Mooji

topic: Difficult, Simplest

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

- Stephen King

topic: Emotion, Simplest, Strongest, Unforgiving

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

- Stevie Smith

topic: Simplest

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

- Ward Cunningham

source: "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

topic: Simplest

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

- William of Ockham

topic: Equal, Explanation, Simplest, Being Equal, Occam's Razor

God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.

- Heather McDonald

topic: Mom, Earth, Simplest

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Elizabeth Gunn, Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina”, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

topic: Littles, Ethical, Simplest

The best plans are always the simplest.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Plans, Simplest

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

topic: Answers, Simplest

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Facts, Simplest, Indian

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

topic: Immortal, Simplest, Subjects

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

topic: Eye, Difficult, Simplest

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

- Mark Twain

topic: Form, Capture, Simplest

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

- Marvin Minsky

topic: Mysterious, Simplest, Seems

The best idea is the simplest.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Ideas, Simplest

Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

- Moby

source: "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Simplest, Persons

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

- Edward Weston

topic: Cameras, Photographer, Simplest

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

- Isaac Newton

topic: Years, Contemplation, Simplest

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: War, Simplest

Thus, the Lingam is the simplest sign or symbol of Emergence and Mergence.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Symbols, Simplest, Emergence