Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Bailey, Philip James

Best Quotes about Simplicity

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

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

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

Lee, Bruce

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Confucius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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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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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Albert Einstein

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

Deupree, Richard

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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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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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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mann, Thomas

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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 the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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 true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Aristotle