Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Aristotle

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

Lee, Bruce

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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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 trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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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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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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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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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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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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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

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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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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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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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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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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See it big, and keep it simple.