Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Albert Einstein

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

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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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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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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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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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Confucius

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

Mann, Thomas

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Aristotle

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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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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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