Simplicity Quotes - page 2

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is. (Jonathan Ive)
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function. View quote
Jonathan Ive
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. View quote
Steve Jobs
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. View quote
William Cowper
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. View quote
George Sand
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth. View quote
Halldór Laxness
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. View quote
Laozi
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. (Mark Hyman, M.D.)
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders. View quote
Giles Foden
I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself. View quote
Bobby Brown
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. View quote
William Albert Allard
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around. View quote
Mary Pickford
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted. View quote
Marina Warner
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. View quote
William Falconer
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. (Henry David Thoreau)
Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude. View quote
George Sarton
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
To gain freedom is to gain simplicity. View quote
Joan Miró