Simplicity Quotes
1222 quotes by 803 authors
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the…
— Albert Camus
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
— Frank A. Clark
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not…
— William J. Clinton
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of…
— Jean Cocteau
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
— Paulo Coelho
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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The…
— Sam Abell
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The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
— Bruce Lee
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There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.
— Sohrab Vossoughi
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In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.
— Jon Franklin
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Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
— Bruce Lee
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We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
— Brother Lawrence
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We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we…
— David Lloyd-Jones
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It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity,…
— John of Kronstadt
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Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in science it is…
— Edward Teller
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In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all…
— Oskar Schlemmer
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