Simplicity Quotes
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
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.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
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.
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.
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.
A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.
As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.
If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.