Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Simplicity

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

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

Aristotle

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Confucius

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

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.

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

Deupree, Richard

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

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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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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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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lao-tzu

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Albert Einstein

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Lee, Bruce

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Kinder, Jack

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