70 Simplicity Quotes, Sayings About Being Simple

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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 ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance - Coco Chanel
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
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
The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954)

Simple living and high thinking.
Simple living and high thinking.
Proverb

Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.
Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.
Anonymous

There is beauty in simplicity
There is beauty in simplicity.
Anonymous

Simplicity is the essence of happiness - Cedric Bledsoe
Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
Cedric Bledsoe

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me - Linda McCartney
I don’t need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
Linda McCartney

Simplicity makes less stress and more happiness
Simplicity makes for less stress and more happiness.
Anonymous

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much. - Sir Joshua Reynolds
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 ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the key
Simplicity is the key.
Anonymous

Simplicity is good for the soul
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 ... - Jonathan Ive
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
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 things, the supreme excellence is simplicity - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Through simplicity comes great beauty.
Its A Mystery

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. -  John Maeda
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
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 - Laozi
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
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
I’ve always liked simplicity.
Marissa Mayer

Today's complexities demand greater simplicity. - Elder L. Tom Perry
Today’s complexity demands greater simplicity.
Elder L. Tom Perry

I always go for simplicity. - David Bailey
I always go for simplicity.
David Bailey

Simplicity Is The Real Beauty
Simplicity Is The Real Beauty.
Anonymous

Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is always a matter of focus - Ann Voskamp
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
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
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
Simplicity is realising what you need rather than what you want
Apoorve Dubey

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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.....
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
Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.
Chris Prentiss

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes - Issac Newton...
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. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. - Dennis Ritchie
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
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
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
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.... - William Morris
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
In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems (1871)

Confucius Quotes. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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
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 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
I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.
Jil Sander

Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
Cedric Bledsoe

Simplicity is the nature of great souls. - Papa Ramadas
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Papa Ramadas

Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier.
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.
Seeing people change isn’t what hurts. What hurts is remembering who they used to be.
Anonymous

Simplicity is the Ultimate form of Sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
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
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,
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
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.
The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.
Anonymous

When Things Aren't Adding Up In Your Life, Start Subtracting.
When Things Aren’t Adding Up In Your Life, Start Subtracting.
Anonymous

Keep Things Simple.
Keep Things Simple.
Anonymous

Beauty attracts the eye but personality captures the heart.
Beauty attracts the eye but personality captures the heart.
Anonymous

Make it simple but significant.
Make it simple, but significant.
Don Draper

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
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
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
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.
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 form of sophistication
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
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 a simple life eat less, move more. Buy less, make more. Stress less, laugh more. Feel blessed, love more. Find a quiet spot every day and breathe.
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
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
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
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
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)

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