Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bo Sanchez

Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

Carl Jung

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Joan Miro

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

Francois Fenelon

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Edward Teller

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Edward Tufte

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

Jonathan Stroud

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

Simplify always - do not complicate.

Henri Matisse

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

Henry Ward Beecher

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Bertrand Russell

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

Edsger Dijkstra

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Henry David Thoreau

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

Henry David Thoreau

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

Henry David Thoreau

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Jakob Nielsen

Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

Isaac Barrow

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.

George Sand

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

Jewel

I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn

Felix Adler

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Fanny Kemble

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Francis Crick

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Harriet Martineau

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

Ignatius of Loyola

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

Hugh Prather

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Gelila Bekele

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

Anders Hejlsberg

I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.