 I do believe in simplicity. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem he first frees the equation from all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms.
– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
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Horace – More real happiness in a cottage
 In a cottage there may be found more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy in palaces.
– Horace (65 BC-8 BC) |
Laozi / Lao-Tzu – Simplicity, patience, compassion
 Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world. – Laozi / Lao-Tzu (604 BC-531 BC) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – Young people love what is interesting and odd
 Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Isaac Newton – Truth is found in simplicity
 Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Henry David Thoreau – Go in the direction of your dreams
| Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
Horace – Be brief for the mind to retain
| Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
– Horace (65 BC-8 BC) |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – In character, in manners, in style
 In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Albert Einstein – If you can’t explain it simply
 If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
E. F. Schumacher – Any intelligent fool can make things bigger
| 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.
– E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977) |
