Humility & Simplicity

“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”
-J.C. Hare

“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.”
-John Morley

"Make a virtue of necessity."
-Geoffrey Chaucer

"A good name is more desirable than great riches."
-Bible, Proverbs 22:1

“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”
-Steven Wright

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."
-Bible, Matthew 5:5

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century."
-Alexandr Solzhenitzyn

"The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time."
-Willem de Kooning

“Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
-Thomas Moore

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues."
-Confucius

"Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."
-Henry David Thoreau

"A taste for simplicity cannot last for long."
-Eugene Delacroix