Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Einstein, Albert

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lee, Bruce

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Lao-tzu

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

Oscar Wilde

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

21.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Albert Einstein

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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God always takes the simplest way.

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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Kinder, Jack

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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