simplicity

1.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

- Pound, Ezra

2.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

- Churchill, Winston

3.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

- Ruskin, John

4.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

- Albert Einstein

5.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

- Gourmont, Remy De

6.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

- Alford

7.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

- Henry David Thoreau

8.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

- Buckle, George Earle

9.

There comes a time when we must narrow our sphere of thought much, that we may truly enlarge it! we must, artificialised as we have been, return to the rudiments of life, to children's pleasures, that we may find easily, through their transparent simplicity, spiritual laws which we may apply to the more intricate spheres of art and science.

- MS. Letter. 1842.

10.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

- Bailey, Philip James

12.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

- Hemingway, Ernest

13.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

- Seabury, David

14.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

- Bruce Lee

17.

In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition.

- Kinder, Jack

18.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

- Moses, Grandma

19.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

- Alfred North Whitehead

20.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

- Kempis, Thomas