Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Aristotle

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Lao-tzu

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Albert Einstein

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Confucius

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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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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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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 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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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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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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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 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