Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Confucius

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Albert Einstein

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aristotle

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

Mann, 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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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.