70 Simplicity Quotes, Sayings About Being Simple
Simplicity is the quality of being simple or uncompounded. It often denotes beauty, purity, or clarity. To understand simplicity in better way sharing few quotes on simplicity. Hope you enjoy reading them!
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel, interview in Harper’s Bazaar (1923)
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life (2006)
The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954)
Simple living and high thinking.
Proverb
Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.
Anonymous
There is beauty in simplicity.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
Cedric Bledsoe
I don’t need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
Linda McCartney
Simplicity makes for less stress and more happiness.
Anonymous
Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.
Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art (1888)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the key.
Anonymous
Simplicity is good for the soul.
Anonymous
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple.
Jonathan Ive
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
Paramahansa Yogananda
In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems (1871)
Through simplicity comes great beauty.
Its A Mystery
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life (2006)
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (300 AD)
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Plato, The Republic, Book 3
I’ve always liked simplicity.
Marissa Mayer
Today’s complexity demands greater simplicity.
Elder L. Tom Perry
I always go for simplicity.
David Bailey
Simplicity Is The Real Beauty.
Anonymous
Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances. Simplicity is always a matter of focus.
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (2011)
Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Laws of Simplicity. 1. Reduce. 2. Organize. 3. Time. 4. Learn. 5. Differences. 6. Context. 7. Emotion. 8. Trust. 9. Failure. 10. The One.
Anonymous
Simplicity is realising what you need rather than what you want
Apoorve Dubey
In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems (1871)
Live simply. Dream big. Be grateful. Give love. Laugh lots.
Paulo Coelho
Keep your heart free from hate and your mind free from worry. Give much and expect less from others. Live life simple, reduce your stress and fill your heart with love. Treat others how you would like to be treated. This is key to happiness.
Anonymous
Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.
Chris Prentiss
Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain, when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Isaac Newton, Principia (1687)
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie (1989) “Unix: A Dialectic
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
The only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
Alfred North Whitehead
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement: a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.
William Morris, Speech, London (10 March 1880)
In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems (1871)
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010)
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
Elliott Erwitt
I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.
Jil Sander
Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
Cedric Bledsoe
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Papa Ramadas
Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier.
Anonymous
Seeing people change isn’t what hurts. What hurts is remembering who they used to be.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
Leonardo da Vinci
See simplicity in the complicated, Seek greatness in small things. In the Universe, the difficult things are done as if they were easy.
Lao Tsu
Have less. Do more. Be more.
Anonymous
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, A Bouquet of Wild Flowers”, article published in the Missouri Ruralist (20 July 1917)
The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.
Anonymous
When Things Aren’t Adding Up In Your Life, Start Subtracting.
Anonymous
Keep Things Simple.
Anonymous
Beauty attracts the eye but personality captures the heart.
Anonymous
Make it simple, but significant.
Don Draper
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, an essay, in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5 (August 1973)
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics (1838).
Wisdom and compassion flow from simplicity and clarity; from having nothing to prove and nothing to defend.
Barry Magid, Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide (2010)
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.
Steve Jobs
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus, Statement in Mainliner (July 1977)
A Manifesto for simple life eat less, move more, buy less, make more, stress less, laugh more, feel blessed, love more, find a quiet spot everyday and breathe.
Anonymous
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), Ch. 2 : Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Never overlook the power of simplicity.
Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny (1996)