Simplicity Quotes

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

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.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

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

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.