Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

- Descartes, Rene

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Albert Einstein

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Kinder, Jack

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Deupree, Richard

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Descartes, Rene

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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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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

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.