The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

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

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.

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