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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

John Morley

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

William Hazlitt

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 main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler

Edward Teller

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

Dan Millman

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness

E. T. Bell

In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of its simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Dag Hammarskjold

There are two different uses for a zone. Surprise and change or simplicity and execution. We use it for surpr

Sean Williamson

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Riccardo Muti

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Yves Saint Laurent

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana

The proposed legislation, though, does not adhere to concepts of certainty, simplicity and neutrality

Jackie Arendse

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Laura Nyro

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor-Heyerdahl

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.

Robert Burns

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life

Winston Churchill

Simplicity 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.

Frederic Chopin

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Henry David Thoreau

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Edward Teller

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity

Plato

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