Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bailey

I always go for simplicity.

David Byrne

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

Peace Pilgrim

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Neil Patrick Harris

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

Kenny Chesney

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

Mary McCarthy

The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

Mark Twain

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Giorgio Armani

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

Leonardo da Vinci

simplicity is the best sophistication

Nelson Goodman

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Nelson Goodman

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Jim Holt

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

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.

Honore de Balzac

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Honore de Balzac

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Anders Hejlsberg

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

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

Ian Hacking

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Jewel

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

George Sand

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

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.

Felix Adler

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.