posted July 25, 2006 06:02 PM
Nothing is more simple than greatness;
indeed, to be simple is to be great.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonSimplicity is the nature of great souls.
- Papa Ramadas
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
- Chinese Proverb
From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
- Albert Schweitzer
The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
- Willard Gibbs
Man cannot live by bread alone...
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God,
and all these things shall be added unto you.
- Jesus Christ
Starved without your skeleton key.
- Kurt Cobain
Simplicity is an acquired taste.
Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
- Katherine F. Gerould
Straight is the gate,
and narrow is the way that leads to salvation,
and few there be that find it.
- Matt. 7:14
Simplicity is the art of the master.
Who dispenses with the external,
understands the essential.
Understanding the essential,
he returns to rule the external.
One must dig beneath the surface of things,
in order to find the skeleton key.
One must discern the voice of silence,
in order to interpret all tongues.
- Valus
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary
so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger,
more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacker
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.
- John Morley
Purity and simplicity are the two wings
with which man soars above the earth
and all temporary nature.
- Thoman a Kempis
A little simplification would be the first step
toward rational living, I think.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most complex things are the simplest.
- Agni Celeste
Partial culture runs to the ornate;
extreme culture to simplicity.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our life is frittered away by detail....
Simplify, simplify, simplify!...
We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
- Mahlon Hoagland
Reduce the complexity of life
by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Way Teale
I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
- Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not simpler....
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
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