Simplicity Quotes · Page 40

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

— Gaston Bachelard

Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.

— Deepak Chopra

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

— Ze Frank

I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have…

— Sebastian Clovis

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of…

— Emmanuel Jal

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to…

— Ernest Rutherford

Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back…

— Duane Elgin

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.…

— Leo Tolstoy

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,…

— Nelson Mandela

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true…

— Hugh Prather

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor…

— Anonymous

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against…

— David Gelernter

Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he…

— Thomas Merton

Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes…

— Matthew Kelly

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…

— Wilfred Trotter

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't…

— Paul Bloom

“In times of profound and overwhelming social change like the present, however, extreme views hold out the appeal of simplicity. By ignoring…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,…

— Joshua Reynolds

Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure…

— Camille Paglia

“Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes…

— Richard J. Foster

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

— Luc de Clapiers

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

— Albert Low

Remember the five simple rules to be happy. Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more.…

— Nishan Panwar

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

— Anonymous

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

— Douglas Coupland

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

— Christopher Ricks

“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it.” —Joshua…

— Anonymous

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

— Kenny Chesney

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

— Giorgio Armani

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not…

— Henry David Thoreau

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well,…

— Jonathan Ive

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

— Thomas Sowell

“We should always be in pursuit of simplicity, in whatever form it takes.”

— Jeff Atwood

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

— Pope Francis

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

— Jim Holt

“Don’t look at the person who has it all. Look to the person who doesn’t need it all.”

— Toyin Omofoye