A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered in a word he must be able to simplify his duties his business and his life. Henri Frederic Amiel
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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David Levithan
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Isaac Newton
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Thomas Sowell
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he...
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Henry David Thoreau
Sincerity is simplicity.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Henri Frederic Amiel
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.
