SIMPLICITY QUOTES

quotations about simplicity

Simplicity quote

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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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.

E. F. SCHUMACHER

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered


Cultivate simplicity ... or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart, and carries into daylight with it its own modest buds, and genuine, sweet, and clear flowers of expression.

CHARLES LAMB

letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, November 8, 1796

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

WILLIAM GADDIS

The Recognitions: A Novel


It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

DAVID LEVITHAN

Every Day


Simplicity is the first thing that is lost, and the last that is regained.

LORD ACTON

Acton; Or, the Circle of Life: A Collection of Thoughts and Observations Designed to Delineate Life, Man, and the World

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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

FANNY KEMBLE

Further Records, January 20, 1875

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The simple things are 90 percent of the ball game. Every now and then you get a great play, but that takes a bit of luck or being in the right place at the right time. If we can do the simple things this team will be okay.

AL BUTLER

Savannah Morning News, August 12, 2017


Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

OVID

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Happy he who is able to reclaim himself, who finds the way back to simplicity.

CHARLES WAGNER

The Simple Life


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

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Émilius: Or, A Treatise on Education

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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

attributed, Engines That Move Markets

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Keep it simple, stupid.

KELLY JOHNSON

KISS principle, Clarence Leonard (Kelly) Johnson 1910-1990: A Biographical Memoir


It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.

ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY

L'Avion

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By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.

BOOK OF MORMON

Alma 37:6


Simplicity
That's the way life should be
Simplicity
Easy as one, two, three

THIRD WORLD

"Simplicity"


The simplest things are often the truest.

RICHARD BACH

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Less is more.

ROBERT BROWNING

Andrea del Sarto

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There is one show of breeding vulgarity seldom assumes -- simplicity.

GEORGE MACDONALD

Mary Marston

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If it is impossible for us to be simple in the forms our fathers used, we may remain simple, or return to simplicity, in their spirit.

CHARLES WAGNER

The Simple Life