Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

Best Quotes about Simplicity

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Deupree, Richard

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Albert Einstein

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

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

Clapiers, Luc De

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lee, Bruce

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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 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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Aristotle

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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Lao-tzu

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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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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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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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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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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Confucius

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Holliwell, Raymond