Simplicity Quotes

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

simplicity is the best sophistication

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

Simplicity makes me happy.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.

All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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

Don't make the process harder than it is.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

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

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

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

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.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.