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  • Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

    Men   Simple   Worry  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.118
  • Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

  • Only great minds can afford a simple style.

    Stendhal (1967). “On Love”
  • Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

  • Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

    Simple   Confusion   Mind  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Broadview Press
  • It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.23, Harper Collins
  • Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  • Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

    Simple   Mind   Way  
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America
  • If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  • Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

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