{"id":14004,"date":"2014-10-13T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=14004"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:48:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:48:02","slug":"33-quotes-on-simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/14004\/33-quotes-on-simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"33 Quotes On Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHere’s a collection of my favorite quotes on Simplicity.
\n\u201cLife is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.\u201d \u2015 Confucius
\n\u201cOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.\u201d \u2015 Henry David Thoreau
\n\u201cSimplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.\u201d \u2015 John Maeda
\n\u201cThe ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.\u201d – Hans Hofmann
\n\u201cAny intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius \u2014 and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.\u201d \u2015 E.F. Schumacher
\n\u201cClutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.\u201d – Edward Tuft
\n\u201cSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.\u201d – Alan Perlis
\n\u201cKnowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.\u201d – Martin H. Fischer
\n\u201cThat’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.\u201d – Steve Jobs
\n\u201cSimplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.\u201d – Maurice Saatchi
\n\u201cThe aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.\u201d – Ludwig Wittgenstein
\n\u201cThe main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.\u201d – Edward Teller
\n\u201cThe simplest things are often the truest.\u201d – Richard Bach
\n\u201cA vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.\u201d – Winston Churchill
\n\u201cTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.\u201d \u2015 Isaac Newton
\n\u201cNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy\u201d \u2015 Isaac Newton
\n\u201cAs I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.\u201d – Albrecht Durer
\n\u201cI am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.\u201d \u2015 Albert Einstein
\n\u201cEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.\u201d – Albert Einstein
\n\u201cThe greatest ideas are the simplest.\u201d \u2015 William Golding
\n\u201cThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.\u201d \u2015 Leo Tolstoy
\n\u201cNothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.\u201d \u2015 Ralph Waldo Emerson
\n\u201cTo me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.\u201d – Bruce Lee
\n\u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.\u201d \u2015 Leonardo da Vinci
\n\u201cBeauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.\u201d – Plato
\n\u201cSimplicity is the glory of expression.\u201d – Walt Whitman
\n\u201cIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.\u201d – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
\n\u201cIt is vain to do with more what can be done with less.\u201d – William of Occam
\n\u201cSimplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.\u201d – Frank Lloyd Wright
\n\u201cSimplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.\u201d – Frederic Chopin
\n\u201cSimplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.\u201d – Constantin Brancusi
\n\u201cThe more simple we are, the more complete we become.\u201d \u2015 August Rodin
\n\u201cOne day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.\u201d \u2015 Jack Kerouac
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