Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Descartes, Rene

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bailey, Philip James

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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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

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

Aristotle

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Deupree, Richard

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Oscar Wilde

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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 business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Buffett, Warren

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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 peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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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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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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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 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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.