Simplicity Quotes

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

~ Ray Bradbury

To find true love simply one must just adore.

~ Will Advise

Your purpose is simply what you do each day.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

~ Victor Hugo

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)

~ Confucius

The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. “If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.”(Analects 4.5)

~ Confucius

Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.

~ Bryant Mcgill

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once we have been engulfed by it. Only by the help of others are we able to detect the inner spirit that places wealth about God. And we must come to fear the idolatrous state of covetousness because the moment things have priority, radical obedience becomes impossible.

~ Richard J. Foster

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

~ Joseph Conrad

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

~ Marty Rubin

Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

~ Pearl Zhu

Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.

~ Pearl Zhu

Beauty lies in simplicity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west.The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

~ Louise Erdrich

Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

~ Kevin Focke

Simple works, complex fails.

~ Timothy Ferriss

And... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together.

~ Laini Taylor

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.

~ Russell Moore

involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success.

~ Priyavrat Thareja

Life is a complex matter thrown into the hands of simple people.

~ Vie Hartè

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

Life was small but good. (15)

~ Francesca Lia Block

We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is looking up to us as we take each breath. We can be just a grape or we can be the juice that offers simplicity, nourishment and refreshment. Extract and empty your goodness. Pass it into the hearts of the people looking up to you. It will multiply beyond your highest good.

~ Angie Karan

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

~ Marty Rubin

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

~ Deborah Harkness

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

~ James S.a. Corey

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

~ Hugh Lofting

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.(Three O'Clock)

~ Cornell Woolrich

Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

~ Rhian J. Martin

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

~ Lao Tzu

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

~ Noah Lukeman

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

~ Maira Kalman

I don’t bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf wholly being only my exterior.I see and I’m moved,Moved the way water runs when the ground is slopingAnd what I write is as natural as the rising wind...

~ Alberto Caeiro