"My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ."
Read quote
7 likes
Simple quotes
Simple
6.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Simple
Browse quotes that often appear alongside simple — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Simple quotes (page 39 of 313)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies."
Read quote
7 likes
"I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me."
Read quote
7 likes
"I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes."
Read quote
7 likes
"Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'"
Read quote
7 likes
"The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience."
Read quote
7 likes
"When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people."
Read quote
7 likes
"When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me."
Read quote
7 likes
"Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time."
Read quote
7 likes
"I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists."
Read quote
7 likes
"There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules"
Read quote
7 likes
"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized."
Read quote
7 likes
"Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved Miss Barrett. Looking up at her from under his eyebrows as she lay, severe and silent on the sofa, he knew that he must love her for ever. Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love."
Read quote
7 likes
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Read quote
7 likes
"When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian."
Read quote
7 likes
"The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity."
Read quote
7 likes
"The best way to stay away from They is really simple. Stay with the people who have some passion. Stay with the people who know the truth. I like to find the They and turn them into We. I like to take the Theys and herd them. People that are skeptical, the Theys, I can bring them to We as much as I can."
Read quote
7 likes
"I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek."
Read quote
7 likes