Simplicity Quotes
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.
Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.
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.
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.
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.
There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
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.
Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.
Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.
