Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
Jessie Sampte
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Alford
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
Richard Feynman
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
Christopher Zeeman
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Leonardo davinci - simplicity is the ultimate sophistication....
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope
Bruce lee - true refinement seeks simplicity....