Simplicity Quotes

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities."

"The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine."

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."

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

"Elegant as simplicity, and warmAs ecstasy."

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."

"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind"

"Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do."

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

"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

"Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect."

"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."

"The simplest things are often the truest."

"Simplicity is always favored by the public. When it's easy to understand, it's easier to get the public to vote yes."

"Simplicity is a huge part of it,"

"I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise."

"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."