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The World’s Greatest Quotes Collection

I’m a big fan of quotes. I collected of them over the years. Here I share all of them with you.

If you want to submit some of yours, be my guest.

Quote of the Day

March 20, 2026 · Europe/Berlin

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, p. 637, 1961
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Goethe, Scientific Studies, 1798

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

An Autobiography, Book Six, 'Broadacre City,' 1943

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Graphic Design (Overlook Art Series), p. 11, 1983

[Users] make their credibility-based decisions about the people or organization behind the site based upon the site's overall visual appeal.

Credibility and Web Design, Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, 2002

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Vol. 3: 1931-1939, p. 74

Good design is as little design as possible.

Ten Principles for Good Design

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

Good design makes a product understandable.

Ten Principles for Good Design, principle #6

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Search for the Real and Other Essays, p. 53, 1948

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

What is Design?", Eames Office, 1969

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.