Simplicity Quotes

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go runnin' back to where thing...

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took ...

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s...

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherd...

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous...

Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple awesomely simple that'...

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow y...

I searched through rebellion drugs diet mysticism religion intellectual-ism and much more only...

Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and...

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquir...

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashame...

Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth ...

Dawes observed that the complex statistical algorithm adds little or no value. One can do just as we...

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as b...

They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything ...

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, ...

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming s...

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow the mother washing her baby the sweet simple ...

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and...

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no...

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life ...

There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ...

I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to k...

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he kne...

She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrus...

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic ...

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said and that only.

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-dispos...

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 M...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience an...

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppr...

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

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

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun ...

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare with...

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or...

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, ...

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wise...

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, li...

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the t...

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell an...

I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous plac...

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence...

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whe...

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we shoul...

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pron...

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity o...

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given u...

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only ...

Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, histor...

Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who liv...

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath...

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those...

The best plans are always the simplest.

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a sin...

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is alwa...

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without qu...

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because...

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perf...

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he ...

The simplest things give me ideas.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been ...

It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.

When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...

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.