Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Simplicity

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Clapiers, Luc De

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

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

10.

God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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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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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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lao-tzu

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

Confucius

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

Deupree, Richard

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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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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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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 complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.