Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

- Fillmore, Charles

Best Quotes about Simplicity

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

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

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Kinder, Jack

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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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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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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 most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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