(253 quotes found)
“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.”
Bruce Lee
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”
Herbert Hoover
“Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity”
Emily Dickinson
“The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.”
L. Ron Hubbard
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
Dennis Ritchie
“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”
Oscar Wilde
“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.”
Philip James Bailey
“Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.”
Eric Temple Bell
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
George Sand
