Simplicity Quotes

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

The simplest things give me ideas.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Simplify always - do not complicate.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

The simplest things are often the truest.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

All the great things are simple.

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Mo' money, mo' problems.

You can't get old without living.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.