Simplicity Quotes
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Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
Charles Lamb -
That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.
John Tyler Bonner
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Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.
William Hogarth -
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
William Strunk, Jr. -
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding -
Nature loves simplicity and unity.
Johannes Kepler -
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
Paul Desmond -
Official history has been tampered with in the most extraordinary way, so that we continue to see the world in the child-like simplicity of good and evil, heroes and villains. The world is rarely like that. Therefore the need to create opposing 'sides' and encourage conflict becomes essential.
David Icke
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.
Gelila Bekele -
We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.
Ian Hacking -
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway -
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
Satish Kumar -
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
William Cowper -
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.
Marshall Field -
I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
Francis Ford Coppola -
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.
Elsie de Wolfe -
When a musical piece is too simple we tend not to like it, finding it trivial. When it is too complex, we tend not to like it, finding it unpredictable-we don't perceive it to be grounded in anything familiar. Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity...
Daniel Levitin -
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel
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Instagram has become one of my favorite platforms because of its simplicity.
Amy Jo Martin -
The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.
Paul Rodgers Bad Company -
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
Albert Einstein