Quotes About Simplicity

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so ' reducing it to a simple formula.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

many are crippled for knowing an impressive word who would have had no such trouble if they had lived in a simpler and less self-indulgent society.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

If the way of spiritual childhood became general, who does not see how easily would be realized the reformation of human society. . .

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry. But I value things unpossessed. The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table.

Love has a dangerous way of simplifying, for the lovers, things that cannot be simplified. Lovers can rarely see why they cannot be allowed to love, to be together. Why not, they naively wonder, since nothing else matters?

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Happy marriage is the greatest wealth a man can possess, and one that a peasant can have as easily as a king.

Don't get me wrong," continued Jenna, "I have nothing against people with good working vocabularies. I'd like to think I have one. And sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Many of you have lost touch with nature, with simple pleasures. No matter how much technology you have, all you crave is the next advance. Your lives have become hollow, meaningless, and unfulfilling.

anything I've ever done. This makes string theory look as simple as addition.

Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

And sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

S'asseoir quelque part en compagnie de soi-même, soudain retranché de la confusion du monde, est aussi facile qu'essentiel.

Prose this bad can only occur when the author is trying to hide something. A theoretical physicist like Sheldon Lee Glashow cannot afford to write in the unreadable prose of the social sciences. He needs to communicate exceptionally complex truths in as simple and clear a language as possible.

The only real answer, the really simple one that neither philanthrocapitalists nor green technologists want to hear, is that we have to reduce our energy consumption altogether.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.