Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Simplicity

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Kempis, Thomas

The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

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

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Stuberg, Robert

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Gibran, Kahlil

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Wang, An

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kinder, Jack

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle

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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

Morris, William

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Johnson, Samuel

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When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Lee, Bruce

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

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

Bailey, Philip James

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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Cooper, James F.

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

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Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

Greene, Graham

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Collier, Robert

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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

Mann, Thomas

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.