Simplicity Quotes
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You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
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The noble simplicity of sentiment in McCain’s tweets is a world removed from Trump’s gaudy and boastful displays. And McCain’s demonstration of character and courage is a far more reliable guide to American greatness than the pronouncements of a president who speaks of it nonstop and embodies it not at all.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
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Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning has just struck. But then darkness and dysfunction rush in. A mind such as Beethoven's remains illumined, or sees in the darkness shapes it never saw before, which inspire rather than terrify. This altered shape (raptus, he would say) makes art of the shapes, while holding in counterpoise such dualities as intellect and intuition, the conscious and the unconscious, mental health and mental disorder, the conventional and the unconventional, complexity and simplicity.
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Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
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Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.
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I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.
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I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
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Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.
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The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
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The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.
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The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
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There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
