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Letter "S" » Simplicity
«Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.»
Author: Richard Holloway
| About:
Clarity,
God,
Joy,
Power,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
attributes, clarity, Marks, singleness, vividness
«Seek simplicity but distrust it»
«Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.»
«Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
affections, gentle, manners, mild, milder, mildest, simplicity
«Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Ideas,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
comprehensible, essentially, expressed, fundamental, simple language
«Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity»
«Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Architecture,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
architecture, expressed, finer, organic
«Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
accounts, affairs, a million, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, nail, nailed, simplicity, thousand million, thumb, thumbs, two dozen
«Nothing is true, but that which is simple.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Simplicity,
Truth
«I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
complexity, fig, Other side, simplicity, The other side
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