Simplicity Quotations | Page 8

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

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

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

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

Out of complexity, find simplicity!

Out of the clutter find Simplicity

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

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.

It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory...

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!....

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

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.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith...

Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

How many things are there which I do not want.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

simplicity is the best sophistication

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

Live simply that others might simply live.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.