simplicity Quotes

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from... ...

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult... ...

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Anybody can get hit over the head.