simplicity quotes

• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. (Herbert Hoover) [fishing/more/]
• In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [character/literary style/]
• A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. (Albert Einstein) [more//more/more]
• I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. (Henry James) [/more]
• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ( Laozi) [embrace//selfishness/desires]
• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ( Laozi) [embrace//selfishness/desires]
• To 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. (Bruce Lee) [/right]
• The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation. (Bruce Lee) []
• The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [/nature]
• Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [/character/etiquette/literary style]
• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings? (William Morris) [/life/floor/walls]
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. ( Plato) [beauty/literary style/]
• Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. (Ezra Pound) [organism/willpower/]
• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. (Charles Dudley Warner) [/journey/life]
• Seek simplicity but distrust it. (Alfred North Whitehead) []
• I often take clothes from my mom's closet, because she was a Simplicity pattern model in the 1950s and loves clothes. She's also a total pack rat. (Illeana Douglas) [take/]

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