simplicity

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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Kinder, Jack

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

- Buffett, Warren

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Einstein, Albert

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

- Churchill, Winston

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

- Delacroix, Eugene

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God always takes the simplest way.

- Einstein, Albert

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It is no good asking for a simple religion. Real things are not simple. They look simple, but they are not. The table I'm sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it is really made of - all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to my optic nerve and what it does to my brain - and, of course, you'll find that what we call'seeing a table'lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of. A child saying a child's prayer looks simple. And if you are content to stop there, well and good. But if you are not - and the modern world usually is not - if you want to go on and ask what is really happening - then you must be prepared for something difficult. If we ask for something more than simplicity, it is silly then to complain that the something is not more simple.

- C. S. Lewis

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I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.

- Deupree, Richard

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See it big, and keep it simple.

- Peterson, Wilferd A.

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ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

- Ambrose Bierce

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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

- Kempis, Thomas

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

- Henry David Thoreau

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

- Fillmore, Charles

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

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There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

- Hoare, C.A.R.