Quotes About Simplicity

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Innocence has a grace which intelligence lacks!

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

you don't need many. You need only one good one.

We see a kind of tattoo and assume a gang member. Or we hear an accent and assume a terrorist. Politicians play off this conclusion-leaping. They use our leaping to manipulate us. Not so with cats. Being predators, they think more simply. If they fail to understand us, it's probably our fault.

Can I really remember, over and over again, that, contrary to all indications, fulfilling my desires will not be as satisfying as lessening them? Simple, but not easy.

we humans have a penchant for complicating stuff that probably shouldn't be all that complicated.

Pas envie de vivre... Qui se levait la première, le matin, rien que pour sentir l'air froid sur sa peau nue? Qui se couchait la dernière seulement quand elle n'en pouvait plus de fatigue, pour vivre encore un peu de la nuit? Qui pleurait déjà toute petite, en pensant qu'il y avait tant de petites bêtes, tant de brins d'herbe dans le pré et qu'on ne pouvait pas tous les prendre?

We painted embroidered and made collages. All these works were drawn from the simplest forms and were probably the first examples of concrete art. These works are realities pure and independent with no meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected all mimesis and description, giving free reign to the elementary and spontaneous.