Simplicity
- The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.--Hans Hofmann
- All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.--Winston Churchill
- 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.--Albert Einstein
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.--Plato (The Republic)
- The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.--Robert Louis Stevenson
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.--Albert Einstein
- The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.--Confucius
- Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.--Elise Boulding
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.-–Colin Powell
- I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.--Albert Einstein
- I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)
- I take a simple view of living. It is, keep you eyes open and get on with it.--Sir Laurence Olivier
- In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.--Henry Longsworth Longfellow
- It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.--Charles Peguy
- It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.--Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House in the Ozarks by Hines)
- I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.--Pat Riley
- A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.--Eleanor Roosevelt (My Days)
- Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.--Charles Mingus
- A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.--Henri Frederic Amiel
- Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.--Lao-tzu
- Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.--Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
- The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.--Cecelia Ahern
- The most complicated skill is to be simple.--Dejan Stojanovic
- Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.--Bil Keane
- Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.--Henry David Thoreau ("Where I Lived and What I Lived For" Walden)
- Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.--Rumi
- Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.--William of Ockham (also known as Ockham's Razor)
- Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.--Thomas a Kempis
- Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.--Edwin Way Teale ("February 4" Circle of the Seasons)
- Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.--Anatole France
- The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.-~Paulo Coelho
- Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.--Richard Holloway
- Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.--Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.--Mahlon Hoagland (Toward the Habit of Truth)
- Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.--Anonymous
- Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world.--George Sand
- Simplicity is the nature of great souls.--Papa Ramadas
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.--Leonardo da Vinci
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand… We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.--Henry David Thoreau
- Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.--Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
- Simplifying isn't meant to leave your life empty, it’s meant to leave space in your life for what you really want to do. Know what those things are before you start.--Leo Babauta (The Power of Less)
- Teach us Delight in simple things,
And Mirth that has no bitter springs.--Rudyard Kipling
- There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.--Leo Tolstoy
- There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!--Mehmet Murat Ildan
- Things to remember: 1) The worth of character; 2) The improvement of talent; 3) The influence of example; 4) The joy of origination; 5) The dignity of simplicity; 6) The success of perseverance.--Marshall Field
- 'Tis a gift to be simple,
'Tis a gift to be free,
'Tis a gift to come down
Where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves
In the place that's right
'Twill be in the valley
Of love and delight.--Shaker hymn
- To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.--G. K. Chesterton (All Things Considered)
- To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter ... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring--- these are some of the rewards of the simple life.--John Burroughs
- Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.—Ammian
- We increasingly live in a complicated world in which those things that can be done in one click get done, and those that can't, don't.--Brad DeLong ("One-Click Rules." Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, October 18, 2006)
- When the solution is simple, God is answering.--Albert Einstein
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