Simple Man Quotes:

All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Simple, Men, Simple Man

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

- Chic Murray

topic: Simpletons, Simple Man

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

- Peter Paul Rubens

topic: Inspiration, Simple, Men, God Help Me, Standing Alone

My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.

- Bruno Mars

source: Source: www.cnn.com

topic: Fun, Men, Thinking, Simple Man

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Simple, Men, Simplicity, Simple Man

A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Simple, Men, Differences, Simple Man

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

- L. S. Lowry

source: In Mervyn Levy 'Paintings of L. S. Lowry' (1975) p. 11

topic: Simple, Men, Use, Simple Man

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

- Martin Luther

topic: Simple, Men, Scripture, Simple Man

I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.

- Bill Duke

topic: Simple, Men, Answers, Simple Man

I'm a simple, simple man.

- Jeremy Renner

topic: Simple, Men, Simple Man

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.169, Modern Library

topic: Life, Simple, Men, Inferiority Complex, Lack Of Education

One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

- Bob Hoskins

topic: I Love You, Simple, Men, Reassurance, Simple Man

I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.

- Pablo Casals

topic: Simple, Men, Artist, Simple Man

The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.

- John Mellencamp

topic: Baby, Simple, Reality, Simple Man

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

- Ozzy Osbourne

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Simple, Men, Tvs, And Off, Simple Man

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

- Eugenio Montale

topic: Real, Book, Simple, Simple Man

Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Jesus, Simple, Men, Simple Man

Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

- Bob Dylan

source: Bob Dylan's acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys, www.expectingrain.com. February 20, 1991.

topic: Mother, Father, Believe, Simple Man

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

- Max Lucado

topic: Mom, Fun, Dad, Great Dad, Happy Fathers Day Mom

If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.

- Tom Kettle

topic: War, Mean, Men, Simple Man

Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.

- Darryl Worley

topic: Simple, Reality, Men, Simple Man

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

- L. S. Lowry

topic: Simple, Men, Blue, Simple Man

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

- Grey Owl

source: Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

topic: Inspiration, Simple, Men, Beckoning, Simple Man

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon (1949). “The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon”

topic: Wise, Simple, Men, Crafty, Simple Man

The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

- Denton Cooley

source: "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

topic: Real, Simple, Men, Medical Science, Simple Man

...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Simple, Men, Two, Piers, Dear Friend

It's oppressive. ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem to do this. They seem to be about things that are fun, not things you have to spend lots of hours on and then fail at.

- Debora Spar

topic: Fun, Simple, Men, Simple Man

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

- Will Durant

source: Will Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization...: Caesar and Christ”

topic: Christian, Jesus, Powerful, Simple Man

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He told stories very easily and very generously, so I loved him for that. He was a simple man, a Victorian; he was born in 1890-something. He saw no reason and had never seen any reason to question his Christian faith. His faith was strong and simple and that's it. And I, like his other grandchildren and the children in his parish, sheltered underneath it.

- Philip Pullman

source: "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

topic: Christian, Strong, Children, Parish, Simple Man