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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

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.94, Columbia University Press

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 success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

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.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.