Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Simplicity

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Kinder, Jack

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

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

Confucius

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Descartes, Rene

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Deupree, Richard

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell