“Our wants were simple, but they could not have been more complicated.” — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Newton’s declaration in book 3 of the Principia: “Nature is pleased with simplicity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the ability to be satisfied with less even when there is more available.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
“There are many reasons to be simple. It’s simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to communicate actively and to live successfully.” — Dee Dee Artner Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“In the peace of winter’s chill, I stacked firewood to fuel a stove that kept me warm. And I thought about how… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Too simple? An idea cannot be too simple. Simple is sometimes great, indeed. The Mahatma had a simple idea, although the British… — Ian B.G. Burns Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“The emperor counsels simplicity. First principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work… How unworthy of the Christian… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is to discuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We… — Deena Kastor Copy Share Image
“ I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
