Simplicity Quotes

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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. — Plato
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am… — Michel de Montaigne
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is… — Leo Tolstoy
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… — John Milton
Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought… — Joe J. Christensen
I am a simple man and I want simple answers. — Howard Aiken
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost… — Hermann Weyl
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them… — Hermann Weyl
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. — Henry David Thoreau
One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching. — Henry B. Eyring
The sweet simplicity of the three percents. — Benjamin Disraeli
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… — Ambrose Bierce
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. — Isaac Barrow
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity. — Henry Ward Beecher
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. — William Feather
To be simple is the best thing in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered… — Pat Buchanan
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. — Albert Low
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself. — Francois Fenelon

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