Quotes about simplicity

"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   

"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   

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

Johnson, Samuel on simplicity   

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

Kempis, Thomas on simplicity   

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

Kinder, Jack on simplicity   

"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   

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

Lee, Bruce on simplicity   

"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   

"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   

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

Montesquieu, Charles De on simplicity   

"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 on simplicity   

"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   

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

Peale, Norman Vincent on simplicity   

"See it big, and keep it simple."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on simplicity   

"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   

"Simplicity is the peak of civilization."

Sampter, Jessie on simplicity   

"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   

"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 on simplicity   

"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   

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

Unknown, Source on simplicity   

"The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity."

Unknown, Source on simplicity   

"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   

"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   

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

Whitman, Walt on simplicity   

"The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine."

Wilde, Oscar on simplicity   

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

Wilde, Oscar on simplicity   

"The complex develops out of the simple."

Wilson, Colin on simplicity   

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

Thoreau, Henry David on simplicity   

"Everything is beautiful in its right use"

Tadj Abelkader on simplicity   

"Tout estsimple à commencer par soi-même."

Tadj Abelkader on simplicity   

"The most complicated skill is to be simple. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity   

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

Stojanovic, Dejan on simplicity