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Simplicity Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Seek simplicity but distrust it.
- The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
- ...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
- Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
- The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the…
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- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey
- Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
- Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee