Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Simplicity

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Clapiers, Luc De

The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Kinder, Jack

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lee, Bruce

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Aristotle

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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Lao-tzu

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lee, Bruce

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Montesquieu, Charles De