Top 100 Simple Simplicity Quotes
#1. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#2. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Bryant McGill
#3. Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
William Morris
#4. Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.
T.H. White
#5. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#6. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
Leo Babauta
#7. If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
Beatrix Potter
#8. The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand.
Bill Buford
#9. Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.
John Maeda
#10. No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.
Samina Ali
#11. To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
#12. Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.
George S. Clason
#13. Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#14. Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.
Walter Isaacson
#15. The simplicity of knowing what's coming isn't so simple after all.
Cat Patrick
#16. Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
B. J. Fogg
#17. I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.
Ron Swanson
#18. The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
Ayn Rand
#19. But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme - in hard, unwavering honesty, no matter how humbling.
Steven Erikson
#21. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.
Bruce Lee
#22. The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.
Dick Clark
#24. The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
#25. It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
Alfred Sisley
#27. Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
Peter Matthiessen
#29. It's hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics.
Marty Rubin
#30. Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.
Rhian J. Martin
#32. Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
Sivananda Saraswati
#33. The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.
Hayley DiMarco
#34. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac
#35. Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
John Wayne
#36. Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#37. 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.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#39. Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#40. Life Is 'Simple' By Nature...
The deeper you try to study, the more you complicate it.
Just believe in it's simplicity & it shall show you it is
far too Simple actually!
Sujit Lalwani
#41. Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.
Lara Dutta
#42. Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#43. No one is as simple as they may seem to be.
Lik Hock Yap
#44. Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.
Kathleen Robertson
#45. I am a simple man and I want simple answers.
Howard Aiken
#46. A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy
An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad
Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
#48. Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.
Marina Warner
#52. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.
Hugh Prather
#54. Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore.
Marty Rubin
#55. The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.
Bryant McGill
#56. People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
Douglas Coupland
#57. Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.
Dan Millman
#60. It was simpler just to keep things simple.
Bruce Crown
#61. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.
Sol LeWitt
#62. Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
Mahlon Hoagland
#63. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
#64. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#65. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
Dan Deacon
#66. A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Andy Goldsworthy
#67. If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I've got it.
I'm a mystic, but only in my body,
My soul is simple and doesn't think.
Alberto Caeiro
#69. That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]
Steve Jobs
#70. The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.
Donald L. Hicks
#71. There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.
Bryant McGill
#72. And even childhood was no good any more - not the way it was. No worry then but how to find a good stone, not round exactly but flattened and water-shaped, to use in a sling pouch cut from a discarded shoe. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity?
John Steinbeck
#73. I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
Gertrude Stein
#74. I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.
Charlotte Eriksson
#75. It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")
Cornell Woolrich
#76. In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.
Oskar Schlemmer
#78. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
Ernest Hemingway,
#79. Life was so simple for a dog. Eat. Walk. Dump. Nap. Eat. Dump. Sleep. And then do it all over again the next day. There was beauty in simplicity.
Susan C. Daffron
#81. From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#82. I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.
Graham Russell
#83. Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.
Marty Rubin
#84. If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.
Debasish Mridha
#86. They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.
Dolly Parton
#87. Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Thomas Gray
#88. There are many reasons to be simple. It's simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to communicate actively and to live successfully.
Dee Dee Artner
#89. People always say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is.
Marty Rubin
#90. One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.
Henry B. Eyring
#91. Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.
John White
#92. It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
Alexis Soyer
#94. The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#95. In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
#96. The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.
Shaun Hick
#97. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.
Helena Rubinstein
#98. Some of the deepest truths are simple, when seen in the clearest light, and it takes a lucid intellect to grasp them so thoroughly that their simplicity can be brought into that light and offered to all, not just the privileged few.
Bertrand Russell
#99. Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity.
P.A. Wunderlich
#100. The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.
Henry B. Eyring
