Top 100 Quotes About Simplicity
#1. True simplicity implies love and trust - it does not expect to be derided and rejected, any more than it expects to be admired and praised.
Thomas Merton
#2. There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom.
J.P. Delaney
#3. Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple.
Debasish Mridha
#4. The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.
Thich Thien-An
#5. Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.
John Bunyan
#6. Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.
Thomas S. Monson
#7. Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task.
William Hazlitt
#9. Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#10. He became ... the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work ... doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.
Honore De Balzac
#11. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
Edmund Burke
#12. Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.
Anuj
#13. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
#14. It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.
Raymond Chandler
#15. To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.
Bruce Lee
#16. I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.
Nolan Bushnell
#17. There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.
Chogyam Trungpa
#18. Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'
Joyce Meyer
#19. Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them ... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.
John Dalton
#20. Wintermute was a simple cube of white light, that very simplicity suggesting extreme complexity.
William Gibson
#21. All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
John Wesley
#22. The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
William Shenstone
#24. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
Anne Lamott
#25. It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand ...
Elsie De Wolfe
#26. Have you limitations, my lord?" asked Sir Anthony.
My lord looked at him seriously. "I do not know," he said, with a revealing simplicity. "I have never yet discovered them.
Georgette Heyer
#27. God's revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it does demand the simplicity, the docility, humility, and faith of a child's heart.
E. M. Bounds
#28. An honest, sensible, humane man, ... laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity ... is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.
John Adams
#29. Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.
Duane Elgin
#30. I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?
Madeline Miller
#31. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
#32. The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
Benjamin Hoff
#33. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.
Donald A. Norman
#34. How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity - as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.
Georges Bernanos
#35. I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
John Woolman
#36. A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
Edward Sapir
#37. The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold
#38. A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.
Oswald Chambers
#39. History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond
#40. Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#41. The Mercy Band," which is guiding this work, endeavoring to bring humanity to a realization of the simplicity of the transition called death, and the importance of a rational understanding of what becomes of the spirits.
Carl A. Wickland
#42. The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.
Robert Turnbull
#43. The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
James F. Cooper
#44. It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!
Benjamin Disraeli
#45. The evaluative criteria are then listed as: "1) storytelling quality; 2) photographic quality; 3) impact; 4) simplicity; 5) beauty" (Mich, 46).
Philippe Mather
#46. Back in the gurdwara, the ceiling doing strange things above my head, Jungli fed me with pieces of orange.
Our outspoken attachment deepened. I was moved by his tenderness, his simplicity and his beautiful eyes. Beauty is a great robber of my common sense.
Sarah Lloyd
#47. Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.
David Byrne
#48. To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.
Joan Miro
#49. Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
Peter Brook
#50. For complexity does not inevitably heighten a story's verisimilitude, or its power to convince; sometimes simplicity and economy make for a more vigorous exposition, propelling the drama forward.
Yan Lianke
#51. Embrace simplicity ... be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.
Chris Prentiss
#53. Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.
Rose Kennedy
#54. Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.
N. T. Wright
#55. I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.
Joshua Waitzkin
#56. 1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: "For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." 2.
Jonathan Edwards
#57. MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
#58. When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#60. I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.
Matthew Rhys
#61. Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..
Dennis Ritchie
#62. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.
Francis Crick
#63. And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
Will Wright
#64. Life is dessert - too brief to hurry ... "Where ever you are, be all there" is only possible with eucharisteo. Slow down and taste life, give thanks, and see God. Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. Eucharisteo keeps the focus. Page 77
Ann Voskamp
#65. Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
Emmanuel Jal
#66. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.
Thomas Merton
#67. Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness ... The smaller the idea the happier I am.
Cory Arcangel
#69. Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#70. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Bruce Lee
#72. So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.
Edgar Allan Poe
#73. Frequently He "carries" them by giving them a very simple faith, which takes the promise just as it stands, and believingly runs with every trouble straight to Jesus. The simplicity of their faith gives them an unusual degree of confidence, which carries them above the world.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#77. But in simplicity lies truth. In simplicity lies power.
Kamal Ravikant
#78. But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.
Anonymous
#79. Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable.
Chip St. Clair
#80. The customer demands simplicity, that organizations organize around them. Easy to use is a customer tsunami ripping across the world. Ease of use and simplicity must now be at the heart of organizational strategy.
Gerry McGovern
#81. The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful - at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.
Stephen King
#82. Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
Lao-Tzu
#83. The best treasure of life is not wealth, but it is simplicity with confidence.
Debasish Mridha
#84. A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.
Anuj
#85. The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [ ... ] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.
Fernando J. Corbato
#86. The badge of honesty is simplicity.
Novalis
#87. Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
Eric Temple Bell
#88. What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
Desmond Llewelyn
#89. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.
Thomas More
#90. To instruct others is to engage the simplicity of receiving eternal life
Sunday Adelaja
#91. No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
William Kingdon Clifford
#92. Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.
Dave Morin
#93. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#94. Evolution of knowledge is made towards simplicity and not complexity.
Daniel Marques
#95. Let me end by summarizing some advantages of exemplarism. Exemplarist virtue theory has the theoretical simplicity and power of foundationalism without the problems of a conceptual foundation.
Anonymous
#96. Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#97. Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
Ursus Wehrli
#98. As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell
#99. I wanted a way back to swings and slides and simplicity. A way back to when a butterfly could cheer me up, and a series of puddles could make my day. A way back to a time when happiness wasn't something I had to search for ... it just was
Cora Carmack
#100. All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
J.R.R. Tolkien
