Simplicity Quotes - Page 18
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.64
"The Scientific Imagination: Case Studies". Book by Gerald Holton, p. XII, 1978.
Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.94, Columbia University Press
William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait (1881). “Miscellaneous Scientific Papers”
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”
"The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2" by Theodor Mommsen, translated by W.P.Dickson, 1866.
Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.465, Bantam
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden (2005). “An Iron Will”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.
Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books
On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)
There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”