#simplest

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family. ↗

— Sister Parish

#become #cared #even #family #generations

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#because #explanation #happen #happened #most

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#black and white #go #information #lie #never

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

#greatest men #men #simplest #truths

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#blue #fills #joy #lest things #message

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#archimedes #familiar #his #life #now

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. ↗

— Karl Barth

#gratitude #joy #simplest

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#appeal #assembly #business #principle #ranks

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #constantly #deals #fact #faith