209 quotes found
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.”
“At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.”
“If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock hi...”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed- it is a process of elimination.”
“The more we reduce the size of our world the more we shall be its master.”
“Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.”
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.”
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”
“Success is simple. Do what's right the right way at the right time.”
“There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.”
“A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.”
“If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“To be simple is to be great.”
“Economy prudence and a simple life are the sure masters of need and will often accomplish that which their opposites with a fortune at hand will fail to do.”
“It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”
“Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.”
“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.”
