Simplicity Quotes
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The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
Stephen Covey
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Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.
George Sarton
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There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.
Kathleen Tessaro
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I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.
David Trubridge
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I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.
Nolan Bushnell
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
Walker Percy
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In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
John Tukey
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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
Eugene Delacroix
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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
Wumen Huikai
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One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
Mother Teresa
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I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
Ernest Rutherford
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
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The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
Marquis de Lafayette
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
William Wordsworth
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Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.
M. C. Escher
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Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.
Richard Feynman
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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
Jonathan Swift
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Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.
William Shakespeare
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I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.
Sarah Polley
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Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.
Matt Mullenweg
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Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Albert Einstein