Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Mason Cooley

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

Mariel Hemingway

There are so many things that we love. Whatever it is, there's a lot of really important things that affect how we live our lives, the simplicity of our life, so we love organizations that help make the planet cleaner and healthier, a place where you can be more connected.

Rajneesh

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

Gelila Bekele

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

Jasper Johns

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

Joseph Joubert

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

Joseph Joubert

Everything that is exact is short.

Richard Steele

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Tom Kelley

If simplicity were easy, we would see more of it.

Mike Burns

One of the main challenges, for me, has been to keep simplicity in its place. It’s only a tool. It’s not the destination, it’s the vehicle that gets us there

Peace Pilgrim

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

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.

Henri Matisse

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

Jon Foreman

It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Johannes Kepler

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Jack Welch

Don't make the process harder than it is.

Oliver Stone

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Simplify always - do not complicate.

Simon Greenleaf

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.