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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Bailey, Philip James

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Hemingway, Ernest

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Albert Einstein

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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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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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Confucius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lao-tzu

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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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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