quotations about simplicity
I prefer the honestly simple to the ingeniously wicked.
WILLIAM PENN
attributed, "William Penn and His Philanthropy", The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17
Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
ANN VOSKAMP
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with--that's poverty--but how efficiently we can put first things first.
VICTORIA MORAN
Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.
ANATOLE FRANCE
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Corrino
Simplicity is the base of everything. At the end of the day if you feel good about yourself, you don't need anything.
NIKKI OGUNNAIKE
"Alessandra Mastronardi, Master of Style", Elle, August 11, 2017
Simplicity is sometimes sexier in its naked honesty. But simplicity isn't simple. It demands great ingredients and on-point technique.
MIA STAINSBY
"Oddfish goes for simple and delicious", The Province, August 30, 2017
All the works of God are characterized by great and even amazing simplicity.
HUBBARD WINSLOW
Moral Philosophy: Analytical, Synthetical, and Practical
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
BRUCE LEE
attributed, Lead Yourself Today
Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.
MASON COOLEY
City Aphorisms
Simplifiers ensure that simplicity is always a goal, a benchmark and a means to arrive at success, leaving us with an actionable lesson -- if you want to innovate, simplify is the new disrupt.
MARGARET MOLLOY
"Five untold approaches to innovation", The Drum, August 24, 2017
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
GEORGE MEREDITH
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Simplicity does not belong to such and such economic or social phases: rather, it is a spirit, able to vivify and modify lives of very different sorts. Far from being reduced to vainly regretting it, we may, I affirm, make it the object of resolve, the end of practical effort.
CHARLES WAGNER
The Simple Life
Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The Character of Physical Law
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Literary Ethics
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
KHALIL GIBRAN
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Native simplicity has an influence on the mind, that art or knowledge of the world can never boast.
THOMAS INGMETHORPE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
ISAAC BARROW
"Upright Walking Sure Walking", Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
attributed, Chopin: An Introduction to His Piano Works
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
COCO CHANEL
interview, Harper's Bazaar, 1923