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Quote:If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.[Lyall Watson]

Quote:We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.[Mother Teresa]

Quote:I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.[Charles Caleb Colton]

Quote:My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.[Stephen Hawking]

Quote:We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Quote:There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.[Ernest Hemingway]

Quote:My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.[Ernest Hemingway]

Quote:Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.[Albert Einstein]

Quote:When the solution is simple, God is answering.[Albert Einstein]

Quote:Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.[John McCain]

Quote:The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.[Bertrand Russell]

Quote:I went out to the country so i could examine the simple things in life.[Henry Thoreau]

Quote:A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. [Anne Morrow Lindbergh]

Quote:How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. [Alice Walker]

Quote:I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. [Oscar Wilde]

Quote:The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. [Confucius]

Quote:Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. [Albert Einstein]

Quote:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. [Henry David Thoreau]

Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. [Charles Caleb Colton]



Definitions of: simple

Definition: Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.

Definition: Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.

Definition: Mere; not other than; being only.

Definition: Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.

Definition: Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.

Definition: Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.

Definition: Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.

Definition: Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.

Definition: Humble; lowly; undistinguished.

Definition: Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.

Definition: Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.

Definition: Homogenous.

Definition: Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.

Definition: To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

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