Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Simple - Simplify Quotes
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach’s B Minor Mass.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Less is more.
There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple […]
The picture cannot be painted if the significant and the insignificant are given equal prominence. One must know how to select.
The order of creation in the Bible is woefully incorrect and violates even the most simple and obvious rules of natural science.
If a perpetual talk about one’s own robustness leads to being less robust, it is even more true that a perpetual talking about one’s own simplicity leads to being less simple… they would make us simple in the unimportant things, but complex in the important things. They would make us simple in the things that […]
The only simplicity that matters is the simplicity of the heart. If that be gone, it can be brought back by no turnips or cellular clothing; but only by tears and terror and the fires that are not quenched. If that remain, it matters very little if a few Early Victorian armchairs remain along with […]
