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“Extreme patience combined with extreme decisiveness. You may call that our investment process. Yes, it’s that simple.”

Charlie Munger

“It is ours to make doctrine simple; this is to be a main part of our work. Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth; for instruction is the great want of the child’s nature.”

Charles Spurgeon

“It is ours to make doctrine simple; this is to be a main part of our work. Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth; for instruction is the great want of the child’s nature.”

– Charles Spurgeon

If you want to find an example to copy, look for it among simple, humble people. True greatness, which not only refrains from putting itself on display but isn’t even conscious of its own greatness, is only found among such people.

—Leo Tolstoy

If you want to find an example to copy, look for it among simple, humble people. True greatness, which not only refrains from putting itself on display but isn’t even conscious of its own greatness, is only found among such people.

—Leo Tolstoy

Where the most eloquent exhortation fails, the simple story of an event succeeds; the lives of men are transformed by a piece of news.

—J. Gresham Machen

Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

—Hryhorii Skovoroda

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

—Albert Einstein

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

—Stephen Hawking

Everything will be difficult, if there’s no dream.

—Hryhorii Skovoroda

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Socrates: God is perfectly simple; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.

—Plato

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.

—Seneca

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

—Oscar Wilde

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

—Charlie Chaplin

We should examine our prayers every now and again to discover how much sincerity & spontaneity they possess. We should insist on keeping them simple, candid, fresh & original.

—AW Tozer

Prevenient grace may be simple conviction or a strange longing which nothing can satisfy or powerful aspiration after eternal values or feeling of disgust for sin & desire to be delivered from its repulsive coils. These strange workings within are the stirrings of the Holy Spirit

—A. W. Tozer

The modern liberal desires to produce upon the minds of simple Christians (and upon his own mind) the impression of some sort of continuity between modern liberalism and the thought and life of the great Apostle. But such an impression is altogether misleading.

—J. Gresham Machen

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.

—John Locke

The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.

—John Locke