Simplicity quotes

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Lying #Evil #Simplicity

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Lying #Heart #Simplicity

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
-- Agesilaus II

#Simplicity #Liberty #Golden

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Humility #Simplicity #Worship

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
-- Alan Cooper

#Simplicity #Design #Principles

Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
-- Alan Cooper

#Simple #Color #Simplicity

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
-- Alan Hovhaness

#Emotional #Simplicity #Intensity

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
-- Alan Kay

#Simple #Simplicity #Should

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis

#Simplicity #Doe #Complexity

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
-- Alan Sillitoe

#Art #Writing #Simplicity

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
-- Alan Watts

#Animal #Envy #Simplicity

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Simplicity #Arrogance

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
-- Albert Camus

#Art #Simplicity #Scales

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
-- Albert Einstein

#Simple #Simplicity #Genius

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
-- Albert Low

#Numbers #Simplicity #Assumption

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Simplicity #Paper

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
-- Albrecht Durer

#Art #Simplicity

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
-- Albrecht Durer

#Art #Simplicity #Form

There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Simplicity #Solutions

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
-- Alexander Pope

#Children #Men #Simplicity

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
-- Alexander Pope

#Mean #Simplicity

It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
-- Alexis Soyer

#Simple #Simplicity #Quality

Seek simplicity but distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Simplicity #Distrust

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Simplicity #Philosopher #Motto

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Creativity #Science #Simplicity

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Simplicity #Sides #Found

The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Simple #Artist #Simplicity

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.
-- Ali Smith

#Simplicity #Depth #Phrases

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.
-- Alice Meynell

#Wall #Simplicity

Simplicity makes me happy.
-- Alicia Keys

#Simplicity #Make Me Happy

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Two #Silence #Simplicity

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.
-- Ambrose

#Honesty #Clothes #Simplicity

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
-- Amish Tripathi

#Simplicity #Everyday #Important

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Drama #Simplicity

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
-- Ann Voskamp

#Focus #Simplicity #Matter

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Art #Skills #Simplicity

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
-- Anne Bishop

#Real #Giving #Simplicity

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
-- Annie Dillard

#Hands #Simplicity #Healthy

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.
-- Annie Hill

#Peace #Believe #Simplicity

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Mean #Simplicity #Originality

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Imagination #Simplicity #Firsts

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.
-- Anuj

#Heart #Simplicity #Soul

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.
-- Anuj

#Men #Simplicity #Humanity

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.
-- Anushka Sharma

#Simplicity #Film #Goodness

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
-- Aristotle

#Success #Education #Simplicity

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Simple #Simplicity #May

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Simplicity #Drs #Holmes

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

#Giving #Simplicity #Foundation

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Art #Law #Simplicity

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Simple #Simplicity

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.
-- B. J. Fogg

#Technology #Simple #Simplicity

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Yoga #Confusion #Simplicity

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.
-- Ben Huh

#Business #Simplicity #Rewards

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
-- Ben Whishaw

#People #Simplicity #Reactions

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.
-- Benjamin Hoff

#Voice #Simplicity #Way

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
-- Benjamin Hoff

#Simple #Simplicity #Natural

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.
-- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

#Simple #Simplicity #Trying

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
-- Bernard Bailyn

#Simplicity #Weakness #Reform

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Simplicity #Difficult

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.
-- Bill Blass

#Simplicity #Soul #Elegance

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
-- Bill Bryson

#Simplicity #Kind #Physics

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'
-- Bill Buford

#Mean #Simplicity #Use

Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.
-- Bill Jensen

#Simplicity #World #Advantage

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.
-- Bill Jensen

#Hard Work #Simplicity #Paradox

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.
-- Bill Jensen

#Simplicity #Doe #Matter

Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.
-- Bill Jensen

#Simplicity #Decision #Needs

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
-- Bill Lear

#Simplicity #Aviation #Strive

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Focus #Simplicity #Growth

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Duplicity #Simplicity #Doe

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.
-- Bill W.

#Simplicity #Enlightenment #Asking

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

#Simplicity #Important #Trying

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Simple #Simplicity #Important

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

#Simplicity #World

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
-- Bobby Brown

#Being Yourself #Simplicity #Inspire

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

#Music #Simplicity #Looks

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
-- Brian Herbert

#Simplicity #Difficult

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

#Simplicity #Action #Tendencies

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

#Prayer #Simplicity #Speak

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.
-- Bruce Lee

#Simplicity #Conditioning

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.
-- Bruce Lee

#Expression #Simplicity #Form

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
-- Bruce Lee

#Running #Simplicity #Design

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
-- Bruce Lee

#Inspirational Life #Keys #Simplicity

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
-- Bruce Lee

#Running #Humor #Simplicity

Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum.
-- Bruce Lee

#Art #Simplicity #Special

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.
-- Bruce Lee

#Distance #Two #Simplicity

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.
-- Bruce Lee

#Simplicity #Chaos #Harmony

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.
-- Bruce Tognazzini

#Book #Simplicity #Design

There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.
-- Bruno Maag

#Giving #Simplicity #Demand

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
-- Bruno Mars

#Song #Heart #Simplicity

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
-- Cary Grant

#Essence #Simplicity #Taste

Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.
-- Caryll Houselander

#Mother #Silence #Simplicity

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

#Native American #White #Simplicity

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
-- Charles Bukowski

#Writing #Profound #Simplicity

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
-- Charles Darwin

#Simplicity #Gentleman #Evolution

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Fire #Simplicity #World

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.
-- Charles Lamb

#Garden #Poetry #Simplicity

Simplicity is a state of mind.
-- Charles Wagner

#Simplicity #Mind #States

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#Simplicity #Speech #Want

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#Simplicity #World #Hardest

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.
-- Charles Wesley

#Jesus #Children #Simplicity