Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Clapiers, Luc De

God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Bennett, Tony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Kinder, Jack

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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao-tzu

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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.

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

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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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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Oscar Wilde

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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Lee, Bruce

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

James, Henry

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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

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

Bailey, Philip James

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lee, Bruce

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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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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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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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

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

Buffett, Warren