Simplicity Quotes

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

~ Elizabeth Enright

The way towards simplicity is through outrage.

~ William Golding

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.

~ G.k. Chesterton

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

~ Henry David Thoreau

It is so dam difficult to be simple.

~ Valquiria Oliveira

You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.

~ Sandy Kreps

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat.

~ Wendell Berry

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

~ Hippocrates

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity, we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute.

~ Shobhaa Dé

If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish.

~ Isaac Asimov

A rose lay open in full bloomand, looking from my garden room,I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain.It seemed so fragile,resting there,and such a silence filled the air,the beauty of the moment caused me pain.What more? I thought. There must be more.As if in answer then, I sawone weighty drop that caused my rose to fall.It trembled, then cascaded downto earth just staining gentle brownand, since then, I've felt different.That's all.

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

~ Nelson Goodman

Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever.

~ Steven Redhead

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

~ Sri Chinmoy

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

~ Brian Herbert

A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

~ Yves Saint-Laurent

I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

~ Rachel Nichols

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

~ Herbert Hoover

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

~ Walt Mossberg

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

~ Philip James Bailey

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

~ Thomas À Kempis

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

~ Edward Teller

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

~ Lucy Larcom

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.

~ Pete Docter

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

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

~ Gelila Bekele

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

~ Camille Paglia

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

~ Jakob Böhme

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

~ Paul Rand

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

~ Charles Spurgeon

As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.

~ Bo Sánchez

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

~ Patrick Stump

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

~ Leo Tolstoy

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

~ Isaac Newton

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

~ Peace Pilgrim

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

~ Tim Burton