Simplicity Quotes - page 5

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked. (Anton Chekhov)
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. View quote
Alexander von Humboldt
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 no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped. View quote
Ward Cunningham
What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution. View quote
Ward Cunningham
The sweet simplicity of the three percents. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
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 design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. View quote
Jean Cocteau
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure? View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious. (George Meredith)
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. View quote
Laozi
A theory is the more impressive, the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more diverse things it connects, and the wider its scope. View quote
Albert Einstein
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
The systems view is the emerging contemporary view of organized complexity, one step beyond the Newtonian view of organized simplicity, and two steps beyond the classical world views of divinely ordered or imaginatively envisaged complexity. View quote
Ervin László
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still. View quote
Robert Ludlum
Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.' View quote
Bruno Mars
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision. View quote
Osamu Dazai
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way. View quote
Carlos Barrios
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. (Riccardo Muti)
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity. View quote
Adam Gopnik
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. View quote
John Maeda
I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. View quote
Linda McCartney