Quotes with simplest

  • 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 faith rather than reason.
  • The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
  • All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

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  • Jacques Barzun In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Phillips Brooks A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Albert Einstein All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And I always thought: the very simplest words
    Must be enough. When I say what things are like
    Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
    That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
    Surely you see that.
    Poems, 1913-1956 And I always thought [Und ich dachte immer] (c. 19
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aleister Crowley Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Albert Einstein God always takes the simplest way.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Erksine In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
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  • Coleman Dowell It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jerry Gillies Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Ernest Hemingway My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Eddington Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • William Golding The greatest ideas are the simplest.
    Lord of the Flies
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • J. C. Hare The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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  • Aaron Allston The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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