Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Lao-tzu

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

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

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Albert Einstein

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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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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 complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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 most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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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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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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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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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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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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