Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Deupree, Richard

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Confucius

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.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Lao-tzu

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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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 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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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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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bailey, Philip James

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Oscar Wilde

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Albert Einstein

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Einstein, Albert