Simple Minds Quotes:

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Simple, Mind, Simple Minds

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

- Georges Bernanos

topic: Dream, Loneliness, Simple, Console, Simple Minds

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Simple, Confusion, Mind, Great Gatsby Book, Simple Minds

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

- Stendhal

source: Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

topic: Fashion, Simple, Simplicity, Great Minds, Simple Living

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Spiritual, Art, Laughter, Richness Of Life, Simple Minds

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

- Wumen Huikai

topic: Simplicity, Mind, Unnecessary Things, Life Is Simple, Simple Things

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.118

topic: Men, Simple, Worry, Original Sin, Whooping Cough

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

- Remy de Gourmont

topic: Lying, Educational, Simple, Simple Ideas, Simple Minds

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

topic: Simple, Mind, Way, New Ways, Simple Minds

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

- Henry Winter

topic: Soccer, Football, Simple, Simple Minds