Simplicity Quotes
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Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
William Cowper
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Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
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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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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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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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Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.
William Shakespeare
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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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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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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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Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.
Cory Arcangel
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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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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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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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Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.
Richard Feynman
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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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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
William Wordsworth
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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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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
Eugene Delacroix
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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
Jonathan Swift
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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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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.
Oliver Goldsmith