Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Giorgio Vasari

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
Edward Teller

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Clara Barton

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.
Evita Peron

I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.
Gerard Butler

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
Mandy Patinkin

I live a pretty simple life.
Tom Selleck

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
Dave Mustaine

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
Roger Bannister

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
Sheryl Crow

Anything simple always interests me.
David Hockney

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
Steven Pinker