Quotes about simplicity

"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 on simplicity   

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

Bailey, Philip James on simplicity   

"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 on simplicity   

"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 on simplicity   

"What is conceived well is expressed clearly."

Destouches, Philippe Nericault on simplicity
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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on simplicity   

"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 on simplicity   

"To simplify complications is the first essential of success."

Buckle, George Earle on simplicity   

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

Buffett, Warren on simplicity
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"The most complex things are the simplest."

Celeste, Agni on simplicity
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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 on simplicity
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"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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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 on simplicity   

"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 on simplicity   

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

Confucius on simplicity
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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 on simplicity   

"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. on simplicity   

"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."

Delacroix, Eugene on simplicity   

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

Descartes, Rene on simplicity
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"I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones."

Deupree, Richard on simplicity   

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

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"God always takes the simplest way."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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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 on simplicity
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"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on simplicity   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on simplicity   

"It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom."

Fillmore, Charles on simplicity   

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ford, Henry on simplicity
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works."

Gall, John on simplicity   

"The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts."

Gibbs, Willard on simplicity   

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

Gibran, Kahlil on simplicity
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"Nothing is true, but that which is simple."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on simplicity   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on simplicity   

"Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."

Gourmont, Remy De on simplicity   

"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 on simplicity   

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

Hemingway, Ernest on simplicity   

"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. on simplicity   

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

Hofmann, Hans on simplicity