Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Proverb, Chinese

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Kinder, Jack

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

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

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Lee, Bruce

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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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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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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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

25.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Deupree, Richard

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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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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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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Descartes, Rene

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bailey, Philip James

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni