Simplicity Quotes
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.
May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.
Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
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.
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.
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.
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
