Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lee, Bruce

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Descartes, Rene

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mann, Thomas

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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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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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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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Deupree, Richard

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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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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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Lao-tzu

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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 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 whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Confucius

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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God always takes the simplest way.

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

Albert Einstein

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Aristotle

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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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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