Best 1007 quotes in «simplicity quotes» category

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

There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.

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.

The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.

There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.

The single most effective way to make a service as reliable as possible is to make it as simple as possible. Find the simplest solution that meets all the requirements.

The simplest things give me ideas.

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.

Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

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

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

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.

Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them.... At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people.... We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel.

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.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.