Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

- Fillmore, Charles

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Albert Einstein

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Confucius

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Oscar Wilde

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Descartes, Rene

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Buffett, Warren

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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