Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

- Jessie Sampter

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lee, Bruce

The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Kinder, Jack

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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 taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-tzu

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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 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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Oscar Wilde

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston