Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Simplicity

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Buffett, Warren

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Kempis, Thomas

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Churchill, Winston

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

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

Deupree, Richard

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Albert Einstein

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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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 complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin