Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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 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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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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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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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Deupree, Richard

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

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Einstein, Albert

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Confucius

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Albert Einstein

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Gibran, Kahlil