Simplicity Quotes

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whi...

Life always refused simplicity.

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, educ...

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders

The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself...

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself...

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish...

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The w...

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and the...

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the mea...

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simp...

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying...

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HU...

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there w...

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detr...

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of th...

Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?

Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to societ...

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unn...

I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple yo...

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each liv...

Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or w...

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and ...

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, yo...

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! Th...

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Simple is never that simple.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those th...

Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

To be simple is to be great.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines....

It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight")

In simplicity there is truth.

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself to keep one's head above the accumulations the ever ...

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state ...

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear the...

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he th...

A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and...

If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some peop...

Do you want to be happy?Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to...

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Do you understand what’s going on here?”Hodgesaargh took another slow look at the scene. “No,” he sa...

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should re...

The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make ...

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: noth...

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;...

Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by i...

Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," Jobs had a...

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, b...

Art it seems to me should simplify.

When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.

The way towards simplicity is through outrage.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor...

I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where th...

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things th...

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off ...

The core – and perhaps unexpected – thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because w...

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must f...

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Jap...

In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been con...

If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrifi...

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem"...

Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body a...