#implicit

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#simplicity #nature

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies. ↗

— Derek Landy

#problems #simplicity #solutions #simplicity

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#simplicity #funny

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#genuine #simplicity #straightforwardness #warrior #beauty

Simplicity is the glory of expression. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#glory #simplicity

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#direct #familiar #feelings #function #i

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. ↗

— Asa Gray

#between #could #differences #distinctively #every

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#candor #christianity #conceded #demands #every

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. ↗

— George Eliot

#simplicity #life