The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.
Children notice things first, people later.
The world looks different and is understood differently at every spot on earth. Without accepting this simple truth it is hard for us to grasp the behavior of others, the motives and aims of those actions.
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.
Reagan was the first President to admit that America was not in control of its own borders.
The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.
Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.
One of my own guiding principles in intelligence work was ... not to make a mystery of what is a matter of common knowledge or obvious to friend and foe alike.
Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.
Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.
I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.
Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.
You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.