Simple - Quotes
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.
Some philosophers can`t bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don`t go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage. But war, war never changes.
The world isn`t run by the laws written on paper. It`s run by people. Some according to laws, others not. It depends on each individual how his world will be, how he makes it. And you also need a whole lot of luck, so that somebody else doesn`t make your life hell. And it ain`t as simple as they tell you in grade school. But it is good to have strong values and to maintain them. In marriage, in crime, in war, always and everywhere.
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
There are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible, and then you must do something else.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Why does love have to be so hard [...]? All I ever wanted was a simple fairy tale.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
If you don`t have time to read, you don`t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. [...] Work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.