Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Lao-tzu

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Hemingway, Ernest

The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Lee, Bruce

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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 art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard