“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Source: Her Own Rules
“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”
Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind
Source: A Voice in the Wind
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20
Kim Stanley Robinson book Galileo's Dream
Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354; note: though this statement is incorporated into the story as one Galileo spoke, it is actually a quotation of one he historically made in his Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kimler/hi322/Dialogue-extracts.html as translated by Stillman Drake.