Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Simple Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.

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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

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But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

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The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world.

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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

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