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

Holliwell, Raymond on simplicity
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"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."

Horton, Doug on simplicity    Share

"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 on simplicity    Share

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

Johnson, Samuel on simplicity    Share

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

Kempis, Thomas on simplicity    Share

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

Kinder, Jack on simplicity    Share

"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 on simplicity    Share

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

Lee, Bruce on simplicity    Share

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

Lee, Bruce on simplicity
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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. on simplicity    Share

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on simplicity
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"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."

Macy, John on simplicity
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"Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject."

Mann, Thomas on simplicity    Share

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

Montesquieu, Charles De on simplicity    Share

"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 on simplicity    Share

"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities."

Peale, Norman Vincent on simplicity    Share

"See it big, and keep it simple."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on simplicity    Share

"Simplicity is the seal of truth."

Proverb on simplicity
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"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Proverb, Chinese on simplicity
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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 on simplicity    Share

"Simplicity is the peak of civilization."

Sampter, Jessie on simplicity    Share

"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 on simplicity    Share

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."

Thoreau, Henry David on simplicity    Share

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

Unknown, Source on simplicity    Share

"The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity."

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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on simplicity
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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 on simplicity    Share

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."

Warner, Charles Dudley on simplicity
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."

Whitehead, Alfred North on simplicity    Share

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

Whitman, Walt on simplicity    Share

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

Wilde, Oscar on simplicity    Share

"The complex develops out of the simple."

Wilson, Colin on simplicity    Share

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

Thoreau, Henry David on simplicity    Share

"Everything is beautiful in its right use"

Tadj Abelkader on simplicity    Share

"Tout estsimple à commencer par soi-même."

Tadj Abelkader on simplicity    Share

"The most complicated skill is to be simple. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity    Share

"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity    Share

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