Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Kempis, Thomas

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

Lao-tzu

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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 most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Albert Einstein

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Kinder, Jack

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Churchill, Winston